How to determine the login duration of current user?

[Kevin Davison]

I took a look at that and the machines aren't generating log entries when a user logs in. 

I also forgot to mention that since these XP's are just used for software testing, the machines aren't joined to a domain.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Avery [mailto:jim at jimavery.me.uk] 
Sent: October-13-10 4:22 PM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to determine the login duration of current user?

On 13 October 2010 18:37, Kevin Davison <kdavison at innosphere.ca> wrote:
> We have a large number of XP Virtual Machines that are used for various
> software testing requirements. The testers are supposed to notify their
> supervisor when an XP instance is no longer required. Unfortunately that
> isn't working very well. The end result is that there are a large number of
> XP instances sitting doing nothing for long periods of time. Ideally, I'd
> love to receive a notification in the event that any XP instance hasn't been
> used for x period of time.
>
>
>
> As the machines are accessed by the testers solely via RDP, I was thinking
> that if I could determine how long it had been since someone had logged into
> the machine I would be able to judge which machines had been abandoned and
> remove them.
>
>
>
> I was mulling over using a WMI check to pull what I need from
> Win32_NetworkLoginProfile but I'm not getting anything returned that I know
> how to make use of.
>
>
>
> Has anyone had a need to perform a check like this in the past or can anyone
> offer any advice as to where else I should start looking?


Is an entry made in one of the Windows Event Logs whenever a user logs
in?  If so I guess you could use CheckEventLog in NSClient++ to warn
if there have been no logins in x days.  For an example, see the
section "Check if a script is running as it should" on the page
describing the old syntax:

http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckEventLog/CheckEventLog/old

hth,

Jim

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