How to find users last login time stamp?

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

dipaki — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:07:40 GMT

Hi anamikav,
If you found the way to determine user's last access date on application level, it will be relay helpful if you can share the approach. Thanks

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

Smruti Swain — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:39:06 GMT

Hi Anamika,
You could find the details from the "Logins" Audit log under <APPIAN_HOME>/logs/login-audit-web-api.csv
The column "Timestamp" is what you are looking for, it is in the format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (the millisecond part is not captured in there).

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

Thenmozhi Mohanakrishnan — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:27:22 GMT

The log file stores all users login data. To filter out your application level users, you can get the members of your application's all user group. Eg. ABC All Users. And get intersection of all users and application all users. To the resulting set of users you can send out an email upon 30 days of in-activeness.

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

sureshg57 — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:02:31 GMT

Hi anamikav ,

As a sustainable solution I would say it is much better or easier to read the log file and store it in your DB and use a mechanism to check the users who has not logged in to system for the specified day and notify them and deactivate them. We have similar kind of requirement and we have adopted this approach because this will put lot more less strain on system and easy to maintain and do not have issues where when we need to zip out log files to reduce memory and so on.etc.

You can read each login audit file form previous day and directly write to DB. You should have a clean up mechanism to tables to delete older data so house keeping is done. you can have another process to check for users how have not logged in to system and send notification and later deactivate. If you have a huge user base and just using a function to check a single user last date would user lot of system resources and will be a very slow process.

Regards
Suresh

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

Rama Thummala — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:07:57 GMT

anamikav , Please use the shared component getuserlastlogin . It will return user's last login date and time. With this info you can send mail if it is 30 days.

This would help you...!!!

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

annap — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 07:31:35 GMT

This will help you,
forum.appian.com/.../summary

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

annap — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:50:06 GMT

@anamikav: you can achieve this by using login-audit.csv as it contains Timestamp,Username,Status,IP,Source,User Agent information of whoever loged in to that application. You can fetch your users in this file within 30 days timeperiod and if your is absent then send mail accordingly.

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

anamikav — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:23:07 GMT

Thanks sikhivahans!

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

harshav — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:31:20 GMT

Yes I do agree sikhivahans, I was suggesting It for Appian Instance Level not for any application level, thanks for that sikhi :)

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

sikhivahans — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 05:07:25 GMT

@anamika I don't think you would be able to do it by reading the contents of login-audit.csv as mentioned above because afaik it records the login information considering the entire Appian instance but not any applications that reside in it.

Opting for the approach mentioned above by @harshav means that you are deactivating the user by checking his logins at the Appian instance level but not at the application level.

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

anamikav — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:42:59 GMT

Thank you Harshav!

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

harshav — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:22:15 GMT

Please refer the below link if you haven't
forum.appian.com/.../Logging.html

RE: How to find users last login time stamp?

harshav — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:20:13 GMT

you can get the details in Login audit.csv file in the server, If you could read the csv file from the server you can get the Last login timestamp and deactivate the user.