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Monitoring Remote Console Clients

You can monitor Remote Console connections in two ways:

  1. You can view the system event logs, where all Remote Console clients connections are logged. A Success Audit event is logged on the server when a client connects to Remote Console Server, and another Success Audit event is logged when the same user is disconnected. Each user is given a unique ID so that the administrator can find, for example, the disconnection event matching a given connection event.
  2. If you have Administrator access, you can also run Rconstat.exe on the server, or remotely when connected to the server with the Remote Console client. Rconstat does not take any parameters and lists all the current connections. Rconstat output looks like the following:

Current number of clients = 1

Total number of clients since service has started = 1

Id Client User Name Start Time In Out

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1 DOMAIN\User Wed Aug 21 18:48:10 1996 2KO 59KO

Use of Rconstat is limited to Administrators; all other users receive an "access denied" error message if they attempt to use it. Notice that the Rconstat client user name is always "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" on the Windows NT 3.51 platform, because the displayed name matches the security context of the Cmd process.

 

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Caution

Stopping the Remote Console Server Service closes all current connections. Moreover, when a client is disconnected using Remote Console, all the processes that it has started during the remote Cmd session and that are still running are stopped.