[Casper] Timing logins and applicaion startup

[Clinton Blackmore]

Greetings.

At my site, we are experiencing a maddening issue wherein 1) sometimes  
(network/mobile) users are unable to log in (or, they log in but can't  
access their home folder, or, logging in is really slow), and 2)  
Office 2008 applications crash.  Both issues are alleviated  
temporarily when we reboot our open directory master [the Office crash  
only started happening after we used WGM to redirect the user's cache  
folder from the network to the local computer to reduce the ridiculous  
startup times], despite the fact that our client machines are all  
bound to replicas.

In order to understand the extent of the problem and to see if any  
changes we apply alleviate it (and believe me, I would sooner just fix  
the problem if I could!), I would like to know if it is possible to  
deploy a script that will time how long it takes for a user to log in,  
and another one to time how long it takes for certain applications to  
start (or see if they crash when a user tries to start them.)  Does  
anyone know how I might do this?

Thank you,
Clinton Blackmore


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