An administrator’s dirty laundry and getting himself scrubbed
Tags :Rant
I have been teaching two of the Lotus admin
classes this week (subbing in at the last minute for a partner of ours
that is a LAEC and had a CLI cancel last minute) and one of the students
asked a very personal matter from his job. Since no one can track
down who that might be, I share this little story for admins to learn by.
He walked away with a moral dilemma on
his hands. As a new administrator (under 9 months I recall from the
introduction time) he came across another admin that seemed to be reading
everyone's mail during the day. He was unsure for a while and eventually
caught on that is what this person did most of the day. I asked why
he didn't report this admin to someone and he informed me (and the class
as they listened intently) that it was the senior admin that had been there
for years. Apparently for kicks he just went through and read email
at will. Now I am not sure what he was thinking, maybe that it was
company owned mail system or whatever, but I am sure that wouldn't go over
well.
The point here is that the admin did not
know how to show that the senior was doing it. User Activity from
a database just doesn't show enough. An admin could be checking just
about anything and you would have to go to each database to gather he was
even in there. (see following image to see how hard it is from User
Activity from database preferences)
Now I came across the exact answer he wanted
in Domino 6. Activity Logging. This beautiful piece of code
can log Domino.Database.Sessions
fully and then export selected documents to a structured text or even delimited
file to allow import easily into Excel for nice 3D graphics of how this
admin is accessing databases.
Notes database
activity logging
Notes database activity logging tracks
Notes database activity that occurs during a server session. Database records
include such information as the name of the database, the name and address
of the database user, the number of documents read and written, the number
of bytes read and written, the total number of transactions executed in
the database, and the length of time the database was open. Servers, users,
and API programs can all generate database activity.
So I hope he packed his clean skivvies
for when the new admin walks in with this report and he craps on himself
while packing his desk.
Moral of the story here? If you have
enough time to read the mail from your domain, there isn't enough to do
or too many of you in the first place.
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On Friday, June 11th, 2004 by Chris Miller
