A+ OS/Software Question

[DragonNOA1]

Here's the question:

What tool should Bill use to track who logs on and off of the busy library terminal for which he is responsible?
A. Event Viewer
B. Performance console
C. System Resource Meter
D. Task Manager

What do you think and why? I think one thing, the book says another, and I don't know who's right? TIA.

[bailey]

I would chose A because it will have a log of who is connecting to it, or loging on.

[DragonNOA1]

Maybe I'm wrong because I don't exactly know how to use it, Event Viewer. How would you go about checking that, Bailey, about who has logged in?

[bailey]

ok I am not sure that I am going to word this correctly, so bear with me, also I have never done it yet, but the way I understand it, you can , with a NOS like w2k set the event logs to record who has loged in to a share, file,or resource and be able to disconnect them, also to see which files and resources are open and able to close them, you can also change the settings and permissions,

does this help you understand the possiblites avaiable with the event viewer?

none of the other choices will give you these features.

the security log is avaible only to system adminstrators and records events such as log-on attempts and falures and network resource access attempts.

[DragonNOA1]

I think I found out how to set up a log. In administrative tools > local security policy > local polices > audit policies. Than turn on the logon audit event to let me see who logs in or not? If that is it, then event viewer is just to READ the log, not to set it up. If that isn't it, then how do you do that from within event viewer.

What I was confused on is that in the performance console you can set up counter logs to log "total logons" "log on errors" "logon/sec" and then view them later to see if people have been typing in a lot of wrong passwords or how many ppl have logged in. BTW, the book says event viewer.

[bailey]

that is correct, when you take the test, event viewer is the answere thay want to see.
if you need more information on how to set it up for what you want to do, I would recommend that you pick up a manual for the NOS that you want to learn.

good luck on your endevor

[DragonNOA1]

I logged in today and it looked like it logged my log-in. lol. Anyways, seems to be working. Thanks Bailey.