Macbook Monitoring logs

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Macbook Monitoring logs

We need to find out logs of past 60 days of any macbook to check if it was unlocked, files accessed, deleted, etc,... The log file must have textual data only and it shall be accessed by the Admin profile holder profile only. We do not want any cloud based or centralised architecture based solution. We need to have an agent kind of solution which gets installed or can be configured in the system and can monitor and store above mentioned data with timestamp.

For Ex: Today I am giving laptop to a new employee as a part of Onboarding task I will install this agent in Admin account and say after some days if I ask the person to give me access of his/her laptop I will be able to login to the Admin account. Once I have admin account access I will be able to access the log files which must have data in text format.

Thanks in advance

Posted on Oct 17, 2024 5:56 AM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

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Oct 23, 2024 9:14 AM in response to riteshln

I'm not aware of any existing third-party utility that would allow all of that functionality. Everything I know of in mobile device management is cloud or server based and will not run standalone on a Mac. This utility:

https://fsmonitor.com/

says that it can track file system changes, but it will not log user access or application launches. Screen Time, built into macOS, can provide some statistics on app usage, but can't track other information such as file changes and it's limited in what it can track and for how long. The third-party standalone tracking apps I can find again also don't track file system changes, and none I've come across can be locked so that the Mac's user can't see and access said apps.

Sorry, but I think that to get what you want in a single stand-alone solution you are talking about custom (and expensive) programming, as John suggested, and that's not anything we here can help you with.

Regards.

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Answer 2

John Galt

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Oct 21, 2024 4:08 PM in response to riteshln

You are seeking professional programming services. If you are looking for a RFP or something like that this isn't the right place to post such a request. Anyone interested would be prohibited from replying here anyway.

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