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Write all login events to a single file
bigdessert
#1 Posted : Friday, September 16, 2011 10:36:40 PM
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Joined: 9/14/2010
Posts: 458
Location: Minnesota
It would be nice if there was a log file where screenconnect would write all login/logout/failed login attempts. This way we can setup a monitor and alerting for logins based on it. Maybe even log to the event log?
x16wda
#2 Posted : Sunday, September 18, 2011 2:20:46 AM
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Joined: 8/3/2011
Posts: 13
Location: North Carolina
Logging is done on a per session basis in the Sessions folder. Each one of the files there contains a log of what happens with that session.

I'd like a combined log too, but it isn't that hard to parse out the session files. I just haven't quite decided what approach to take. Probably the easiest is read each file, parse it out, write out log entries to a text file, and sort by time. Simple, easy to read, maybe write a new log each day. Or stuff it into a sqlite database, then you can run reports any which way. It's more problematic if you want to update the log every time something happens.
Daf
#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:27:31 PM
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Location: UK
+1 for this. Compatibilty with something like fail2ban would be great.
Jeff Bishop
#4 Posted : Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:01:53 PM
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Joined: 4/14/2010
Posts: 140
Location: Raleigh, NC
Unless I am mistaken I believe we are mixing things here a bit. I think bigdessert would like to log when someone tries to login to ScreenConnect to see if someone is trying to brute force into the install? x16wda, it appears maybe you were talking about ways to manage the session logs created for each session. I can say that Jake posted a pretty good script on how he did that, but if you have something you are using we would love to hear it!

http://forum.screenconne...orting-on-Sessions.aspx

I will submit the request to try and monitor login attempts.
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bigdessert
#5 Posted : Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:04:23 PM
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Joined: 9/14/2010
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Location: Minnesota
Jeff Bishop wrote:
Unless I am mistaken I believe we are mixing things here a bit. I think bigdessert would like to log when someone tries to login to ScreenConnect to see if someone is trying to brute force into the install? x16wda, it appears maybe you were talking about ways to manage the session logs created for each session. I can say that Jake posted a pretty good script on how he did that, but if you have something you are using we would love to hear it!

http://forum.screenconne...orting-on-Sessions.aspx

I will submit the request to try and monitor login attempts.


Thanks Jeff, that is exactly what I am looking for.
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