Re: Finding IP address of Failed Login Attempt

If the device is at a signon display you can use the API QDCRDEVD.
quick example:
http://www.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/archive/index.php?t-38125.html


If that is not possible you can setup a telnet exit program
A simple one can be found here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/rzaiw/rzaiwexitsample.htm

You would then just have to match up the time stamps to find the IP address

Bryan



[email protected] said the following on 5/2/2007 8:44 AM:
> We run a nightly report using DSPAUDJRNE ENTTYP(PW).   This report has 
> ballooned to hundreds of pages because of one user id.
> 
>   VIOLATION USER       USER       DEVICE REMOTE   LOCAL    NETWORK  JOB   
> JOB 
>   TYPE      PROFILE    NAME       NAME                 NAME     NAME ID  
> NAME       USER 
> PW    Q     QTCP       MATTHEW                            QTVDEVICE  QTCP 
> PW    Q     QTCP       MATTHEW                            QTVDEVICE  QTCP 
> 
> I've spoken with the user and he is unaware of these attempts.  The times 
> show that they occur at 2 minute intervals.  I suspect that the user was 
> signed in on a 5250 emulation session with reconnect enabled, changed his 
> password on another session/terminal, and now the original device keeps 
> retrying with an old password. 
> 
> Is there a way to track down the IP address of these attempts, or even the 
> workstation id that it is using?  I've looked at the job log for 
> QTVDEVICE.  It doesn't seem to give any info that would help me track down 
> the origin.   The sign on server doesn't show any entries in the job log 
> and I can't seem to hit a decent search pattern on either Midrange.com or 
> Google.
> 
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