Re^4: How to Iterate to Identify Concurrent Users

If user A logs on at 9:30 and leaves at 9:45 and user B logs at 9:40 and leaves at 10:00, that would be two concurrent/simultaneous users. I would like to capture the incremental number of concurrent users over the lifetime of the log file, as unintresting as it seems ;-) I hope this makes sense.

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Re^5: How to Iterate to Identify Concurrent Users by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 26, 2007 at 01:24 UTC
that would be two concurrent/simultaneous users. No, that would be "two concurrent/simultaneous users between 9:40 and 9:45". Saying "x concurrent users" without specifying when makes no sense. Two is also the "maximum number of concurrent users between 9:30 and 10:00", and the figure I presume you want.	[reply]
Re^5: How to Iterate to Identify Concurrent Users (SNMP) by fenLisesi (Priest) on Oct 26, 2007 at 11:59 UTC
You may be able to query whatever device is producing these logs in realtime over SNMP and ask it directly how many sessions are currently active. Then, you would be able to use something like RRDtool (and its Perl wrapper library) with an SNMP frontend. PS. incremental is confusing.	[reply]