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Judy,

The OCF facility scheduling program we use here has a program that
can run on a Windows machine and it tracks logons and logoffs.  We use
this data for billing hours on our confocal, since sometimes people sign
up for 3hrs and only use 2.5.  Sorry, it doesn't track individual programs.

http://schedule.arl.arizona.edu/select_resource.php?v=1

The software is open source, does require a Unix/Linux server and a few
other things.  Contact the University of Arizona Biotechnology Computing
Facility for more details (see:
http://bcf.arl.arizona.edu/contact-us/5.html ).

Doug

Judy Trogadis wrote:
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> This is a question for supervisors of equipment :
>
> What sort of monitoring programs are available for documenting usage on
> computers attached to microscopes?  The built-in Windows utilities just
> don't do it for me.
>
> Every user in our facility has their own login ID, password and I would
> like to record whenever they launch specific programs and when they exit
> from a program. This can be used for billing, for usage stats and for
> identifying "anonymous" (after-hours, without booking, improperly
> trained) users. If this is too complicated - some programs have
> components which launch from several locations simultaneously - then
> simply logon/logoff would be fine.
>
> I asked this question a few years ago but it was for an NT OS - very
> difficult, I'm hoping XP will have a simpler solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Judy
>
> Judy Trogadis
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