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Monitoring Usage of Workstations with a Relational Database

Authors: 

Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Abstract: 

The ability to monitor usage of groups of workstations is quite useful for planning growth, facility hours, staffing and other issues; but in our case, both the format of the data (/var/adm/wtmp) and the fact that the data was spread over hundreds of different workstations made any analysis difficult at best.

In this paper, we explore the use of a relational database to collect all the raw data, convert it to a standard form, and then provide selection tools to extract data sets. We also examine some ways to process session data to provide more meaningful reports and charts for administrators.

Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

BibTeX
@inproceedings {260117,
author = {Jon Finke},
title = {Monitoring Usage of Workstations with a Relational Database},
booktitle = {8th USENIX System Administration Conference (LISA VIII)},
year = {1994},
address = {San Diego, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-viii/monitoring-usage-workstations-relational-database},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = sep,
}
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