How to determine the login duration of current user?

[Kevin Davison]

I like the sound of that. I agree with you on the passive vs active issue. I often find that setting something up active gets me where I need to go faster and then I never get back to finding a passive way to do it. We'll need to make the modification to each of the VM's (~200) but I think that will do what I want. I'll take a look at doing that. Thank you very much!

-----Original Message-----
From: Diego Roccia [mailto:diego.roccia at gmail.com] 
Sent: October-14-10 9:34 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to determine the login duration of current user?

  There's another solution: you could setup a logon script that sends
an nsca every time a user login to the server. Then, you can check the
service  freshness against a 1 or 2 days threshold. It's a completely
different approach, but I prefer to use passive checks when I need to
trigger user created events, as I think it makes more sense (and less
load and traffic) than checking continously the logs.

Diego


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:22 PM, C. Bensend <benny at bennyvision.com> wrote:
>
>> VMware's version of this is VDI - it's pretty good, but it's not cheap -
>> it needs a special kind of ESX license so you can't run those desktops
>> on your existing servers, they need to be on dedicated ESX/VDI servers.
>
> This statement is not accurate, at least not in our locale.  While
> VDI *does* require a separate license, it will run just fine on
> existing ESX infrastructure and does not have to be on a separate,
> "special" ESX host.  We have many virtual desktops and some of them
> are intermingled with our virtual servers.
>
> Good idea/bad idea is still an exercise left up to the reader.  :)
>
> Benny
>
>
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