Hi
Does anyone have a creative method to be alerted when someone logs on to the server either via RDP or console?
Checking the Security log for successful logon events might work. You may need to turn on extra event log auditing for this.
if you're looking for a specific person/login, use the description filter, it should contain the user logged in and you can alert off the user's login. If you just want a list of who logged in set up a report for the week, either way as Ben said you'll need to turn on the eventlog for that to work.
That Is fine, I have enabled auditing but the issue is if you restart the service, it is also treated as a log on and alert is generated. I need to mointor ONLY Logon types 2 and 10. which are for console and RDP.