Administrator Guide

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

Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity

These restrictions apply for tracking login activity:

• Only the system and security administrators can congure 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.

Conguring Login Activity Tracking

To enable and congure login activity tracking, follow these steps:

1 Enable login activity tracking.

CONFIGURATION mode

After enabling login statistics, the system stores the login activity details for the last 30 days.

2 (Optional) Congure the number of days for which the system stores the user login statistics. The range is from 1 to 30.

CONFIGURATION mode

Example of Conguring 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 congures the system to store the login activity details for 12 days.

Dell(config)#login statistics enable

Dell(config)#login statistics time-period 12

Display Login Statistics

To view the login statistics, use the show login statistics command.

Example of the show login statistics Command

The show login statistics command displays the successful and failed login details of the current user in the last 30 days or the

custom dened time period.

Dell#show login statistics

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