Show or list which users are logged into a Cisco router

Contributed by qmchenry June 18, 2006  
Tagged: Cisco router

Wide area networks are often very wide and installing or troubleshooting remote routers often requires fingers on keyboards in more than one physical location. It is simple to get a listing of the users logged into a router which makes it easier to send that user a message (as many remote locations have no cell phone signal).

To list the users logged into a router, issue this command:

show users


The output will show something like:


Line User Host(s) Idle Location
* 0 con 0 00:00:00
66 vty 0 qmchenry idle 00:13:49 trx3845a


The line starting with the asterisk is the session from which you run the command.