Monitor service account logins

Hello,

I've been asked to create a method of alerting if the account that the
MSSQLSERVER service runs under is used to attempt to log into the
database from another workstation. Here's what I've thought of so far:

OPTION 1: Monitoring for all login attempts. I don't want to do this as
we get about 200,000 logins an hour ( a seperate issue).

OPTION 2: I could do it via a server side trace but I'm not sure how I
could get an alert out of this without reading the trace file every
couple of minutes.

OPTION 3: I could run a query every minute that queries the
sysprocesses table but this leaves the possibility of sessions that
last under a minute not being picked up.

Can anyone think of a more elegant way of doing this? I'm leaning
towards option 2.

Cheers

Dave

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