Track Login Activity; Restrictions For Tracking Login Activity; Configuring Login Activity Tracking - Dell S6100 Configuration Manual

• Configure a UNIX system as a syslog server by adding the following lines to /etc/syslog.conf on the UNIX system and assigning write
permissions to the file.
• Add line on a 4.1 BSD UNIX system. local7.debugging /var/log/ftos.log
• Add line on a 5.7 SunOS UNIX system. local7.debugging /var/adm/ftos.log
In the previous lines, local7 is the logging facility level and debugging is the severity level.

Track Login Activity

Dell Networking OS enables you to track the login activity of users and view the successful and unsuccessful login events.
When you log in using the console or VTY line, the system displays the last successful login details of the current user and the number of
unsuccessful login attempts since your last successful login to the system, and whether the current user's permissions have changed since
the last login. The system stores the number of unsuccessful login attempts that have occurred in the last 30 days by default. You can
change the default value to any number of days from 1 to 30. By default, login activity tracking is disabled. You can enable it using the
login statistics enable command from the configuration mode.

Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity

These restrictions apply for tracking login activity:
• Only the system and security administrators can configure login activity tracking and view the login activity details of other users.
• Login statistics is not applicable for login sessions that do not use user names for authentication. For example, the system does not
report login activity for a telnet session that prompts only a password.

Configuring Login Activity Tracking

To enable and configure login activity tracking, follow these steps:
1 Enable login activity tracking.
CONFIGURATION mode
login statistics enable
After enabling login statistics, the system stores the login activity details for the last 30 days.
2 (Optional) Configure the number of days for which the system stores the user login statistics. The range is from 1 to 30.
CONFIGURATION mode
login statistics time-period days
Example of Configuring Login Activity Tracking
The following example enables login activity tracking. The system stores the login activity details for the last 30 days.
Dell(config)#login statistics enable
The following example enables login activity tracking and configures the system to store the login activity details for 12 days.
Dell(config)#login statistics enable
Dell(config)#login statistics time-period 12
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