[8753] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: application and user logging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Wed Jun 20 16:37:44 2001
To: Petros Triantafyllidis <trian@itc.auth.gr>
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Petros Triantafyllidis's message of "Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:53:38 +0300 (EEST)"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 2001 13:28:59 -0700
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Petros Triantafyllidis <trian@itc.auth.gr> writes:
> Has anybody developed an application-usage monitoring tool under AFS?
> More specifically, we intend in our University campus to check whether
> some programs are used or not, in order to re-organize our purchasing
> policy. Therefore, we are looking for a cross-plattform solution (Unices,
> Windows) to monitor the use of AFS, both in terms of users ticketing and
> applications use as well, while a further plan is to show the results on
> the web in real time.
I have a Unix-only solution that involves wrappering all the binaries
whose usage you want to track so that rather than running the actual
binary, the user first runs a small C program that sends a UDP packet to a
tracking host and then execs the real binary. It's not robust in the face
of users trying to intentionally bypass it, but it works pretty well
otherwise.
I have no idea if the same thing would work for Windows, since I know very
little about Windows and am interested in knowing less, but it's a pretty
small program.
It's not bundled up for distribution, but I can mail you a tarball of the
code if that sounds interesting. Warning: The only documentation is the
comments at the beginnings of the source files, but it's all pretty short
and easy to understand.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
