topic Re: Bulk User Logoff in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Bulk User Logoff

Former Member — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:01:56 GMT

Hello,

I need to log off selected users using abap. Would you please kindly let me know the code/function module to achive this?

I tried using SYST_LOGOFF but this C function logs off only one user. I am not sure if there are other attributes to this function.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Re: Bulk User Logoff

Former Member — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:27:43 GMT

Hi,

Try using TH_DELETE_USER in your abap code. Just loop through this FM with the user names one at a time, and you will have the desired effect.

Regards,

Sachin.

Re: Bulk User Logoff

Former Member — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:08:09 GMT

Then why not he would use SYST_LOGOFF itself in loop?

Re: Bulk User Logoff

Former Member — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:10:32 GMT

I am not comfortable with the idea of logging off users using ABAP. Are these dialog users doing their job? What is going to happen if you log them off in the middle of their work?

Re: Bulk User Logoff

Former Member — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:30:10 GMT

I second Srinivas' concern here.

An approach I have seen used is to send them a system message (or mail) warning about the downtime, and then use network tools (e.g. a SAProuter, or logon groups) to disconnect them from the server when the time is ripe.

SYS_LOGOFF is a very blunt tool...

Cheers,

Julius

Re: Bulk User Logoff

peter_strauss — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:36:00 GMT

>An approach I have seen used is to send them a system message (or mail) warning about the downtime, and then use >network tools (e.g. a SAProuter, or logon groups) to disconnect them from the server when the time is ripe.

How can you use logon groups to disconnect users?

Re: Bulk User Logoff

Former Member — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:27:08 GMT

What I meant by that is clients in the user network can be load balanced onto application servers via logon groups. Knowing which server they should be on, one could then simply block them on the firewall or even stop those dialog instances.

Cheers,

Julius