What I am looking for is something - file, variable, reg key, etc. - that would
indicate a computer wasn't (or was) logged on to the corporate network. You
could use some sort of ping, but that would be no good if ping was blocked or
the target that determines the "online" status was offline or unreachable for
some reason. Hope I am making sense here, I am watching the England game as
well as emailing away :-)
---Blackberried
-----Original Message-----
From: "Kennedy, Jim" <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:45:51
To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues"
<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>Subject: RE: Offline/online detection
Not sure if this is what you are asking but I track logons with a logon script
that writes to a csv file on a server share. You could modify it a bit and add
a second script to track logoffs. It is the only thing I have found to be
reliable. Then I have a scheduled task each night to rename 'log.csv' to
today's date and recreate a new 'log.csv' for the next day. It gives me
computername, username, ip and time. WARNING, very bad things happen if the
server share becomes unavailable using my system. I would suggest using a
couple of server shares and dfs them for fail over.
strComputer = objNetwork.ComputerName
Set objWMIService = GetObject( _
"winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set IPConfigSet = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select IPAddress from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration ")
For Each IPConfig in IPConfigSet
If Not IsNull(IPConfig.IPAddress) Then
For i=LBound(IPConfig.IPAddress) _
to UBound(IPConfig.IPAddress)
strIPAddress = strIPAddress & "," & IpConfig.IpAddress(i)
Next
End If
Next
strInfo = objNetwork.ComputerName & "," & objNetwork.UserName & "," & Date() &
"," & Time() & "," & StrIPAddress
SET objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
SET objOutputFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("\\SERVER\Logs\log.csv", ForAppend,
False)
objOutputfile.writeline strInfo
objFSO.Close
-----Original Message-----
From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Offline/online detection
What's the best way to detect whether a user is offline or online (I.e.
Connected to the corporate network)? I thought maybe query the %logonserver%
variable but that might also apply to online situations where a DC cannot be
contacted for whatever reason. I'm sure there must be a way, wondering if
anyone has any ideas they can throw out?
TIA,
JR
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