[Samba] Samba log analysis and report

[David Wilson]

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for your reply.
Wow ! That's brilliant !
I've now implemented the "deadtime" option and my utmp stats are working 
nicely.
I'm using a Slackware-10.0 Linux server with OpenLDAP as the backend.

Thank you so much for your help, greatly appreciated !
Keep well.


Kindest regards
David Wilson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron J. Zirbes" <ajz at cccs.umn.edu>
To: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba log analysis and report


> Dave,
>
> I use the --with-utmp support (if your system supports it).
>
> You can then view logon times using `last`
>
> I know on my FreeBSD server (PDC) I can save my accounting info, and get 
> monthly summary totals for all my user's usage rates (who's hitting the 
> server the most via the `ac` command)  My RedHat server don't seem to have 
> this installed, but I'm sure that with a google you could get it running 
> on a Linux machine as well.
>
> I use this in combo w/ the deadtime = 10 option in smb.conf to 
> automatically disconnect inactive sessions so my utmp, and wtmp logs are a 
> little more accurate.
>
> P.S. the acccounting department loves these because they bill users 
> computing support ISOs according to different usage levels.  I combine 
> this with data from my SQL server logs, and wala... I can see who my power 
> users are, and who my technophobes are.
>
> -- 
> Aaron Zirbes
>
> David Wilson wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Does anyone know of some decent Samba log analysis software that will 
>> report things like user logon/logoff times, computer names etc. ?
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Kindest regards
>> David Wilson
>