Enabling and disabling login tracking

By default, login tracking is enabled in Maximo® Manage. Login tracking enhances security, however, this tracking can sometimes impact system performance.

About this task

When you enable login tracking, the product logs all sign in attempts, successful and unsuccessful. You enable or disable login tracking by setting variable values in the MAXVARS table.

Procedure

  1. Run one of the following SQL statements on the database to enable or disable login tracking:
    • Enable tracking with the following statement: update MAXVARS set VARVALUE = '1' where VARNAME='LOGINTRACKING'
    • Disable tracking with the following statement: update MAXVARS set VARVALUE = '0' where VARNAME='LOGINTRACKING'
  2. Restart the server.