Novell Home

Capturing the workstation login name

Novell Cool Solutions: Question & Answer

Posted: 2 Jun 2005

Q:
Is there a way for NSure to capture the workstation name for a login event?

A:
The agents developed by Novell are designed to be high traffic agents, with the ability to log 1000's of events a second in large environments. This means that they focus on logging basic information rather than acquiring more advanced information. To get a workstation name, the agent would have to do a DNS lookup on the address. For many environments that are just using WINS for name resolution, this would not return anything and just delay the agent.

Novell Cool Solutions (corporate web communities) are produced by WebWise Solutions. www.webwiseone.com

Novell® Making IT Work As One

© 2008 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved.