SystemIdleCheck Enteprise Overview
The enterprise version of SystemIdleCheck has been improved over the free version to provide flexibility and ease of management for Windows system administrators.
SystemIdleCheck allows you to set a time limit for "idleness". When the target idle time is reached, the specified action is performed:
- Log the current user off
- Lock the computer
- Restart the computer
- Shutdown the computer
Logging via Windows Event Log
By utilizing the built in functionality of the Windows event log, integration with other log aggregation and monitoring applications becomes no problem. You can use your favorite monitoring solution to "watch" as actions are taken across a domain.
Event Descriptions
As of version 1.5, the following are the events currently logged by SystemIdleCheck:
| Event ID | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1000 | Info | SIC startup event |
| 1012 | Info | Configuration data used |
| 1020 | Info | Idle detected, logging off current user |
| 1021 | Info | Idle detected, locking workstation |
| 1022 | Info | Idle detected, rebooting workstation |
| 1023 | Info | Idle detected, shutting down workstation |
Added Enterprise Version Features
The free version of the program gives you some basic functionality, and if that is what you want to use, more power to you. However, with the enterprise version, you also get the ability to utilize registry settings, which can be distributed via Active Directory Group Policy, to configure the target workstations.
Configuration via Registry
Configuring an application via registry settings is no big deal. Applications have been doing this for many years.
In a domain environment, this becomes a method to configure a large number of computers, quickly. By utilizing Active Directory Group Policy, identical settings can be applied to many machines, with minimal administrative overheard.
With the enterprise version if SystemIdleCheck v1.5, you also have the ability to configure various aspects of the program, including:
- Title text
- Body text
- Colors
- Actions (Restart, logoff, lock, and shutdown)
- Warning banner triggering
Sample Registry Settings
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\fortypoundhead]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\fortypoundhead\sic]
"TitleText"="! WARNING !"
"BodyText"="Your computer has been idle and will be locked when the timer expires."
"TitleBackgroundColor"="C00000"
"TitleForegroundColor"="FFFFFF"
"BodyForegroundColor"="FFFFFF"
"BodyBackgroundColor"="C00000"
"ExpireAction"="logout"
"ExpireTime"="300"
"ExpireWarningTime"="60"
Branding
Don't like the default interface? Let's put your brand on it!
Purchasers of the enterprise version have the option of customizing colors and/or adding corporate logos to the interface.
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Posted: 2020-03-24
By: dwirch
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dwirch posted this comment on 2020-12-29:
I'm pretty much scrapping the separate versions. All "Enterprise" features are being rolled in to one version.
AnonymousCoward posted this comment on 2021-03-31:
Thanks much for this. Small college here and this might be helpful to prevent having 6,291 students logged on at the same time. Going to give it try...
You mention adding a corp logo, but there's no further mention of this. Is it possible? Is it possible to use a standard dialog box instead of the flashing neon sign? I love the program and your back-and-forth with users, but I gotta say, the neon sign burns my eyeballs out. :-)
TIA
dwirch posted this comment on 2021-03-31:
@Anonymous:
Hoping this works out for you. Honestly, I haven't had anyone ask for branding. It'd be easy enough add though. It's easy enough to do, so send me a logo or something to work with, and I'll see what I can do. An email to webmaster (at) fortypoundhead.com will get it to me.
As for the burning neon, how about I add a switch to allow you to choose between the "standard" eye-burning version, and a regular old Windows-style dialog ?
AnonymousCoward posted this comment on 2021-04-06:
Sorry for the delay in answering...
No big deal on the branding. If it were something I could manage myself, it might be interesting to do, but nah, not if I gotta bug the dev with any little tweak. Another little utility that I've found useful allows for this sort of branding/customizing so I was hoping for that kinda thing (RebootDialog, Fredrik81, GitHub, if you're interested).
A switch for Neon vs. Windows-style would be great, though. I think it would look more professional in a standard window. The non-standard window would probably make our users think they'd gotten malware.
Finally, thanks much for this useful little utility. Should cut down on wasted resources for our lab PCs.
AnonymousCoward posted this comment on 2021-06-03:
Did you ever add a switch to use a standard window?
dwirch posted this comment on 2021-06-04:
Sorry, I haven't gotten to it yet.
Life happens to some more than others.
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jdarrow1214 posted this comment on 2020-12-29:
How does one optain the enterprise verion?