Re: [K12OSN] Collecting user statistics from K12LTSP?

["Larry Mateo" <LarryM fsusd k12 ca us>]

Larry Mateo
Network Technician II
Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District
larrym fsusd k12 ca us

>>> stanton kacschgo org 11/30/03 08:24PM >>>
Hello all,

I volunteer with a group called NPOTechs http://npotechs.org 

I am going  to demo K12 LTSP in early December
here in Chicago. One thing that would really help sell this to the audience 
would be to demonstrate K12LTSP's ability to track client data like:

number of unique client log-ins
most popular sites
number of hours of use by individual students 
etc

It would be nice is if this could be presented in some format that would be 
easy on the eyes and extensible, html, swx, pdf or some such

I was wondering if anyone had run accross anything like this, written this, or 
generally knew who might  be able to point me towards applications like this. 

Thanks in advance!

John


John: I looked into something like this when I was configuring our first K12LTSP system, but not to the extent that you are.   I just wanted to track the number of logins that occurred per classroom and how long the users used the system.  Basically, I found that within our environment--Linux 7.3 with Gnome--when a user logs in via the gui login, a file called /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default is processed, and at logout a file called /etc/X11/gdm/PostSession/Default is processed.  So, during login, via the PreSession/Default file, I appended an entry into a tracking file that contained login information, and at logout, via the PostSession/Default file,  I appended an entry into the tracking file that contained logout information.  Processing the actual data was a bit cumbersome and we really didn't need the information afterall, so I eventually dropped the whole thing, but if your programming skills are up to the challenge it may help with your presentation.