topic Re: VMS user management/reporting tools in Operating System - OpenVMS

VMS user management/reporting tools

Nate Klostermann — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:59:09 GMT

I'm looking for a Windows tool (I guess it could be a native VMS tool) to manage users account on our OpenVMS 7.3-2 server. I would like to easily be able to run reports on the user accounts (such as last logged in date, what users haven't logged in in 30 days, 90 days, etc.) Possibly automatically disable someone if they haven't logged in in 30 days.... Any suggestions?

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Ian Miller. — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:38:46 GMT

The OpenVMS Management Station
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/argus/index.html
is a GUI for managing users (add/delete etc)
However I don't think it does the reports you want.

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Ian Miller. — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:45:42 GMT

parhaps this
http://www.pointsecure.com/products/pointaudit.asp

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Jan van den Ende — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:46:03 GMT

Nate,

Not sure if this is even remotely what you are looking for, but..

we arranged to get the mutations to the Personnel System delevered to us, and wrote some DCL to forward any changes that have relevance to SYSUAF or any application.

Think New user; contract termination date; department (coupled to UIC group with us), predefined set of allowed/disallowed applics, in-applic rank-coupled authorizations, name changes (Marriage, divorce, initial typo correction) etc.

It's both a disadvantage and an advantage:
YES, you have to write it yourselve, YES, you need a lot of detailed knowledge of business rules, but also: YES, you (can...) get EVERYTHING you want, and YES, it is all done without typo's, "not in today", and ANY human-related error-causes (well, the DCL's ARE human-written :-( .
And the prospect of entering on average some 400 mutations per week into a GUI is not very appealing (at least, to me it is not).

Nowadays, I spend some 10 minutes every week to check the logs for any indication of non-smooth operation, and I tend to begin to consider even THAT as a waste of time..

Bottom line: if you have serious amounts and/or non-trivial needs: it pays to automate it yourself to your own needs.

fwiw

Jan

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Jan van den Ende — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:47:13 GMT

i forgot...

Welcome to the VMS forum!!

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Karl Rohwedder — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:55:40 GMT

Mayby anything 'less' than a windows gui is also acceptable?

There is e.g.:
- PROFILE - a screenoriented account profiler,
see http://ftp.uma.es/Vms/Wku/profile.zip

- Joe Meadow's XUAF - allows selection of
users acc. to selectable specs and outputs
selectable fields (dom't know where to find)

- GETUAI - returns selectable user
information in DCL symbols, handy for
programming, I tweaked it a little to
allow for new flags like PWDMIX...)
( This software was suvmitted to ftp.spc.edu by Nick Metrowsky of
Rice University; Houston, Texas.)

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Ian Miller. — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:10:02 GMT

other tools to search the UAF for usernames with criteria such as you listed
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?scanuaf
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?uaf

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Lokesh_2 — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:12:35 GMT

Hi,

You can use Polycenter Security Compliance Manager. This product has the feature that you want (like automatic disabling of accounts..).

Thanks & regards,
Lokesh

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Ian Miller. — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:23:10 GMT

PCM (DECinspect) is fine but CA's replacement product is not :-(

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Nate Klostermann — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:49:24 GMT

Thanks for all the replies! Many thanks!

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Kent Brodie — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:49:25 GMT

Somewhere in the older decus collection(s) wasa REALLY great tool called "showuaf", that I used extensively.

(Sorry- native VMS, not windows).

Re: VMS user management/reporting tools

Nate Klostermann — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:28:07 GMT

I am going to go with SCANUAF. This tool is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again.