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Administrating MarkLogic Server

Storing Last User Login Information in a Last-Login Database

A database named Last-Login is created upon installation of (or upgrade from 3.2 to) MarkLogic Server. You can use this database as the last-login database for one or more App Servers. Each time a successful or unsuccessful login is made via the App Server, the last-login database is updated with that information. Only information for the last login attempt is retained. Because this database is constantly changing with each login attempt (every request is authenticated, so each request updates the last-login database), it is a good idea to use a different database than content database for your last-login database. In general, it is probably OK to keep a single last-login database that is shared by all App Servers who use this functionality, but if you do this, keep in mind that the information will then be shared by all the App Servers; that is, that the last-login time and other statistics will be for all App Servers using the last-login database.

Note

A history of the successful login attempts is not retained; only the time of the last successful login is stored in the database.