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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.

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.