Repost: System load, no. of users, etc., for non-administrators

From: Michael A. Covington (look_at_www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address)
Date: 05/29/04


Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 14:25:46 -0400


(Reposting to bring in another newsgroup...)

"Michael A. Covington" <look@www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address> wrote
in message news:ep3bK8RREHA.1392@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> We have a Windows 2003 server which we make available, by remote desktop
> access, to users who have long computations to run. (They can start a
> program running, disconnect, and come back next week for the results.)
>
> In the logon script, I would like to show them things like:
> - Number of users presently logged in
> - System CPU load (measured various ways; it's a dual-CPU dual-pipelined
> Xeon which Windows sees as 4 CPUs)
> - Recent successful logons
> - Recent logon failures (so we will notice cracking attempts)
>
> How can I do this? I'm willing to use any technology that doesn't cost
> money :) I program in VBSCRIPT (a little), C, and C#. The logon script
is
> in VBSCRIPT. Using command-line utilities would also be handy and I'm
adept
> with .BAT files, etc.
>
> The catch is, the users are not administrators, so even Task Manager
doesn't
> show them users and processes other than themselves and their own. Is it
> mainly a matter of granting some permissions? If so, which ones?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> --
>
> Michael A. Covington - Artificial Intelligence Ctr - University of Georgia
>
> "In the core C# language it is simply not possible to have an
uninitialized
> variable, a 'dangling' pointer, or an expression that indexes an array
> beyond its bounds. Whole categories of bugs that routinely plague C and
C++
> programs are thus eliminated." - A. Hejlsberg, The C# Programming
Language
>
>



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