Re: RWW Monitoring

From: Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP] (les.connor_at_DEL.cfive.ca)
Date: 02/25/05


Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:28:34 -0600

Here's something posted by Supergumby that might work for you.

<snip>
I recently implemented logon/logoff scripts via GP

------logon.cmd----
echo logon %username% %computername% %date% %time% >> \\sbs\share\logon.log

-----logoff.cmd-----
echo logoff %username% %computername% %date% %time% >> \\sbs\share\logon.log

---give me a logon.log like----
logon June VSXP Tue 22/02/2005 10:39:51.12
logoff June VSXP Tue 22/02/2005 10:41:08.45
logon MickM VSXP Tue 22/02/2005 10:42:01.07
logoff MickM VSXP Tue 22/02/2005 10:42:46.81

-- 
Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
-----------------------------------------------------------
SBS Rocks !
"Adam" <Adam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:050C0D88-9674-4595-8D57-600155E3A59D@microsoft.com...
> Charles,
>
> Thank you for the very complete answer, but given the gaping entrance into 
> a
> network (albeit useful) the openess of RWW, and the potential breach that
> could ensue, You would think that someone or Microsoft would have set up a
> more complete reporting - monitoring tool. You have given me a solution, 
> but
> a very painful solution. As a business owner I wnat to know who is on my
> network after hours, As a hardware/software intergrater, I need to let my
> customers feel secure.
>
> The server usage report is insulting, it gives you a taste that something
> might be wrong and that is it. In your scenerio, one must jump up, spin
> around, hop twice and spank the dog to find an answer.
>
> Awaing your respones,
> Adam Cole
>
>
> ""Charles Yang [MSFT]"" wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> I am happy to hear from you.
>>
>> According to your description, I understand that you want to know if 
>> there
>> is some reports can include the RWW information and OWA during a specific
>> period. If I misunderstand you, please let me know.
>>
>> Based on my research, OWA usage can be got from Server Usage Report, you
>> can find the information in IIS log, for RWW usage there is no direct way
>> to get it. If you users use RWW to logon to network, there will be
>> following event in the event logs.
>>
>> EventID 680
>> Source: security
>> Category: Account Logon
>>
>> In addition, even ID 540, 552 and 576 will also be logged in to security
>> event logs.
>>
>> With the information, you could know the users log time, but the source
>> computer will not be displayed since the client computer use IE to logon 
>> to
>> IIS pages. If you want to know more information about the IIS session, 
>> you
>> could use IIS logs.
>>
>> 1.       Open Internet Information Services (IIS) console <Server name>
>> right click ''Default Web Site'' to choose ''Properties''.
>>
>> 2.       Under the ''Web Site'' tab, check the option ''Enable Logging''.
>>
>> 3.       With ''W3C Extended Log File Format'', click ''Properties''.
>>
>> 4.       Under ''General Properties'', make sure ''Use local time for 
>> file
>> naming and rollover'' is CHECKED.
>>
>> 5.       Switch to the ''Extended Properties'', and then select to enable
>> All the logging Options.
>>
>> 6.       Click OK to apply the modification.
>>
>> 7.       By Default, the log files are created in the
>> ''%systemroot%\system32\logfiles\W3SVC1'' folder.
>>
>> You could view more information through log files.
>>
>>
>> More info:
>>
>> 1. In SBS today, we do audit failed and successful AD logons and RWW 
>> logons
>> are included here, but not currently distinguishable from other logons. 
>> If
>> you are concerned about password attacks, this is the right place to look
>> as these would not be limited to RWW. You could check the event logs on
>> clients to know when users log on and off if you are truly concerned 
>> about
>> knowing when people telecommute.
>>
>> 2. TS provides advanced auditing functionality that may be able to be 
>> used
>> here: Server Management->Advanced Management->Terminal Services
>> Configuration->Connections->Right click RDP-TCP->Properties->Permissions
>> tab->Advanced->Auditing tab->Add select a user from AD->OK-> Here you'll
>> see auditing you can perform around connections, etc.
>>
>> 3. You can update the RWW pages to run a script or write to the event log
>> each time someone logs in. For updating the RWW page, you may need to
>> develop it. However, we may consider this for the next version of SBS.
>>
>> I am currently standing by for an update from you and would like to know
>> how things are going on your end. If you have any questions or concerns 
>> on
>> the recent information I've provided you, please don't hesitate to let me
>> know.
>>
>>
>> Charles Yang
>> Online Partner Support
>> Partner Support Group
>> Microsoft Global Technical Support Center
>>  Mailto: v-chayan@microsoft.com
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Charles Yang (MFST)
>>
>> Microsoft Online Support Engineer
>>
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>>
>> 


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