How to monitor client usage

Within server 2000 is there a way of recording when a user loggs on, tracks what he/she does and when he/she logs off.......?

Thanx

 

I think we've had this question before, and the simple answer was you cannot.

You could add something to the users' logon and logoff scripts to write information to a file or database to log connection to the network and disconnection. But tracking what they do on the network is harder work.

An easier way to go may be to track the network traffic. If you have a managed switch(es) you may be able to log traffic at the switch, or use SNMP to send log information from the switch to a SYSLOG system (Kiwi syslog for example). If you set the switch to send logs at the debug level you'll get a log of all your network traffic. Of course, if you have a busy network that could be a lot of logs.

If this is to track down some specific misuse, this may be feasible. If not you may want to write a script that will analyse the SYSLOG output.

 

Thanx Reggieb I guess you have confirmed what I already thought.....

I will probably have to go down the route of employing a 3rd party piece of software

 

I may have responded too quickly. Have a look at how this thread is developing.