Users Logon & Logoff Timings

[Guest]

I want monitor users logon & logoff timings centrally, without using built-in
Audit Policy feature, because of use of this tool, I have to enable this
policy on more than 200 machines. Can I check Event Viewer centrally?

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

If your 200 machines were in a domain and users were required
to log in with domain accounts then you could use domain policy
to record audit events in the security logs of the domain controllers.
Otherwise, look at how cconnect is designed (from the resource
kit) as you could design something similar to record login info into
a central database.

 

[Guest]

I am in educational institute, and students logon/logoff frequency is high.
If I will enable domain policy to record audit event, What about network
traffic growth?
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If your 200 machines were in a domain and users were required
to log in with domain accounts then you could use domain policy
to record audit events in the security logs of the domain controllers.
Otherwise, look at how cconnect is designed (from the resource
kit) as you could design something similar to record login info into
a central database.

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

For 200 machines network should not be impacted due to auditing
if users are already using domain accounts, as the logging is all local
to the domain controllers which are already being contacted to do
the login. As such, the auditing is all local to the domain controller
that is already being used over the network.

I am in educational institute, and students logon/logoff frequency is high.
If I will enable domain policy to record audit event, What about network
traffic growth?
--
I like Microsoft Newsgroups, Which provides to help me.

Thanks to Microsoft