Logging ARD Client Connections

dstranathan
Valued Contributor II

Does anyone know if ARD has its own log? Can I enable an ARD log?

I don't see an ARD client log on my Macs, so I have no way to accurately track down successful and/or failed ARD connections.

defaults, ps, netstat, etc are all handy for determining if ARD client is actually running and and for seeing current connections, as well s configuring the client itself, but Id like to see a log of all ARD auth attempts on ports 5900, 3283, etc. Logs such as the system.log, the authd.log, etc don't show any ARD connectivity stats.

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thomasC
Contributor

screensharingd gets logged in systems.log. That's all we've ever found in relation to ARD logging on the client side. All we have seen is

"Authentication: SUCCEEDED :: User Name :: <username> :: Viewer Address: <ip address> "

Haven't seen any else related to ARD service.