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From: greg@irl.ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Software to record site usage data
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Date: 20 May 91 16:41:22 GMT
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In article <17126@chopin.udel.edu> larryh@chopin.udel.edu (H Lawrence Hotchkiss) writes:
>Hi Novellers,
>
>The University of Delaware is looking for a simple way to log information about
>use of specific applications running on a Novell Network.

Well, my simple way costs only your time.  It's not pretty or elegant, but I
use it and it works.  I launch net applications from a BAT-file menuing
system, so in each file I add a couple of lines:

(batch file code...)
systime >> logfile
echo [informative stuff] >> logfile
(batch file continues)

By doing this before and after the call to the application, I have a record
of the start and stop times of each application.  Periodically, I grab the
logfile, run my program that looks at the file, and print out the usage info.

Pretty awful and ugly, I know, but it works to a reasonable tolerance.
If you want me to be more specific I'll post examples.  Maybe buying soft-
ware from Brightwork would be preferable....
--
Greg O'Rear
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida
Address: O'Rear@ise.ufl.edu