Concept Guide
Example of Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions
The following example enables you to clear your existing login sessions.
Dell(config)#login concurrent-session clear-line enable
Example of Clearing Existing Sessions
When you try to login, the following message appears with all your existing concurrent sessions, providing an option to close any one of the
existing sessions:
$ telnet 10.11.178.14
Trying 10.11.178.14...
Connected to 10.11.178.14.
Escape character is '^]'.
Login: admin
Password:
Current sessions for user admin:
Line Location
2 vty 0 10.14.1.97
3 vty 1 10.14.1.97
Clear existing session? [line number/Enter to cancel]:
When you try to create more than the permitted number of sessions, the following message appears, prompting you to close one of the
existing sessions. If you close any of the existing sessions, you are allowed to login. :
$ telnet 10.11.178.17
Trying 10.11.178.17...
Connected to 10.11.178.17.
Escape character is '^]'.
Login: admin
Password:
Maximum concurrent sessions for the user reached.
Current VTY sessions for user admin:
Line Location
2 vty 0 10.14.1.97
3 vty 1 10.14.1.97
4 vty 2 10.14.1.97
5 vty 3 10.14.1.97
Kill existing session? [line number/Enter to cancel]:
Track Login Activity
Dell Networking OS enables you to track the login activity of users and view the successful and unsuccessful login events.
When you log in using the console or VTY line, the system displays the last successful login details of the current user and the number of
unsuccessful login attempts since your last successful login to the system, and whether the current user’s permissions have changed since
the last login. The system stores the number of unsuccessful login attempts that have occurred in the last 30 days by default. You can
change the default value to any number of days from 1 to 30. By default, login activity tracking is disabled. You can enable it using the
login statistics enable command from the conguration mode.
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity
These restrictions apply for tracking login activity:
• Only the system and security administrators can congure login activity tracking and view the login activity details of other users.
• Login statistics is not applicable for login sessions that do not use user names for authentication. For example, the system does not
report login activity for a telnet session that prompts only a password.
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