VMware Logon Monitor monitors Windows user logons and reports performance metrics intended to help administrators, support staff, and developers to troubleshoot slow logon performance.
Metrics include logon time, logon script time, CPU/memory usage, and network connection speed. Logon Monitor can also receive metrics from other VMware products to provide more information on the logon process.
Supported Platforms
Logon Monitor supports the same Windows platforms as the Horizon Agent.
Key Features
Logon Monitor provides the following features:
- Installed as part of Horizon Agent. To start the service, see KB 57051.
- Integrates with Horizon Help Desk Tool timing profiler. Logon-related metrics are aggregated and sent to the Horizon Agent events database.
- Enables customers to upload logs to a file server for easier access.
- Integrates with other VMware products, such as Horizon Persona Management, App Volumes, UEM, and the Horizon Agent that send logon-related events to Logon Monitor. Logon Monitor logs the events as they occur to show the events in the logon flow and how long they are taking.
- Monitors concurrent logons on the same machine.
Logs
- Main Log: The main log file, vmlm.txt, contains all status messages for the vmlm service and session events that come in before and after monitoring the logon. Check this log to determine if the Logon Monitor is running correctly.
- Session Log: The session log contains all events related to a user logon session. Events start in this log when the logon begins and only apply to a single user session. A summary written at the end of the log provides an overview of the most important metrics. Check this log to troubleshoot slow logons. When the logon is complete, no further events are written to the session log.
Logon Monitor Metrics
Logon Monitor computes metrics related to logon, group policy, user profile, and performance. These metrics provide administrators a detailed view of end user systems during logon time to help determine the root cause of performance bottlenecks.
Metric | Parameters | Description |
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Logon time |
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Metrics include the time logon starts on the guest, logon is completed and the profile is loaded and the desktop is visible, and the total time spent processing logon on the guest. Excludes any time spent outside of the guest. |
Session start to logon start time | Total time | Time from when Windows created a user session until logon began. |
Profile sync time | Total time | Time Windows spent reconciling user profile during logon. |
Shell load |
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Windows provides the start time of the user shell load. The end time is when the explorer window is created. |
Logon to hive load time | Total time | Metrics provide total time from when the logon starts to when the user registry hive is loaded. |
Windows folder redirection |
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Metrics related to the time Windows folder redirection starts and is fully applied, as well as the total time to enable Windows folder redirection. This time can be high for the first time folder redirection has been applied or if new files are being uploaded to the redirected share. |
Group policy time |
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Metrics related to applying group policy to the guest include the time it took to apply user group policy and machine group policy. |
Profile metrics |
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Metrics related to the user profile indicate the type of user profile and whether it is stored on the local machine, on a central profile store, or deleted after logoff. The profile size includes metrics on the number of files, the total number of folders, and the total size in MB of the user profile. |
Profile size distribution |
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A count of the number of files in various size ranges in the user profile. |
Processes started during logon |
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These values are logged for each process that starts from the time the session starts until the logon is complete. |
Group policy logon script time | Total time | Metrics related to executing group policy logon scripts report total time spent executing group policy logon scripts. |
Group policy power shell script time | Total time | Metrics related to executing group policy power shell scripts indicate time spent executing group policy power shell scripts. |
Memory usage |
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WMI metrics related to memory usage during logon. Samplings are takings until logon is complete. Disabled by default. |
CPU usage |
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WMI metrics related to CPU usage during logon. Samplings are taken until logon is complete. Disabled by default. |
Are logon scripts synchronous? | Reports whether group policy logon scripts are executed synchronously or asynchronously to the logon. | |
Network connection status |
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Reports whether the network connection is alive or disconnected. |
Group Policy Software Installation |
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Metrics related to group policy software installation indicate whether the installations are synchronous or asynchronous to the logon, if the installations succeeded or failed, and the total time spent installing software using group policy. |
Disk Usage For Profile Volume |
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Metrics related to the disk usage on the volume where the user profile is stored. |
Domain Controller Discovery |
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Domain controller related metrics. Error code indicates if there is a failure reaching the domain controller. |
Estimated network bandwidth | Bandwidth | Value collected from Event ID 5327. |
Network connection details |
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Values collected from Event ID 5314. |
Settings that can affect logon time |
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Metrics from Horizon Agent, Persona Management, App Volumes | VMware products that interact with Logon Monitor report custom metrics in the Logon Monitor logs. These metrics can help determine if one of these products might be contributing in a negative way to the logon time. |