I took a look through the mradmin user manual and was unable to find anything that mentioned whether or not the MRE tracks logins to the various dashboards.

Does anyone know if the MRE does this natively, or do I need to create a script that will do this for me.

I did see that within the user admin portion of the dashboard builder it provides a list of users logged in/out at the given time.

Thanks for the help.

It will to be be a hand-draulic routine.

T

You could turn dashboard tracing on. Unfortunately, this creates an individual file per login event, so it might be a bit cumbersome to report on.

I inadvertently discovered Dashboard tracing while on an unrelated, ESRI Mapping course.

This is all v5.3.2 so it may be improved or documented.

The URL for Java component tracing is:

http://server-name/ibi_apps/tracing.jsp

On this page there is a link for Dashboard tracing, which can be accessed independently:

http://server-name/ibi_apps/worp/jsp/trace/WORP_TraceViewer.jsp

The trace can be turned on/off and a level of tracing can be set, Fatal, Error, Warning, Info.

The files are stored here: Drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS53\worp\log and the traces look something like this:

Gen Date: Thu Sep 30 01:32:43 EDT 2004
Gen Number: 252
Gen Label: WEB53
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_RM.logDefau  
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_RM.logDefau  ---------------
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_RM.logDefau  Request type: WORP_LOGIN
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_RM.logDefau  Return type: null
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_RM.logDefau  Session Id : NULL_SESSION
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_RM.logDefau  ************************************
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_RM.doPost    isPublicUser=true
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  >>>> encryptedDataMode >>> false
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  searching for < WORP_DUAL_LOGIN > parameter/flag
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  Checking for IBIMR_returntype parameter
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  Checking for IBIMR_returntype parameter
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  Checking for IBIMR_returntype parameter
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  Checking for IBIMR_returntype parameter
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  Checking for IBIMR_returntype parameter
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  Checking for IBIMR_returntype parameter
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  Checking for IBIMR_returntype parameter
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  updating request headers being sent to WebFOCUS CGI
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  getting HTTP header names from request
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  searching for server environment variables
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:112 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  no server environment variables were configured -- moving on ...
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:315 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  reading return code from cgi in mrcgi format
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:315 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  Reading from WF CGI >> http://server-name:80/ibi_apps/WFServlet
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:315 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  ERROR_CODE found >> 1000
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:315 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  processing cookies >> 
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:315 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_SM.doPost    user francism signed on successfully
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:330 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_SM.doPost    worpUser=francism
39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:784 INFO   ibi.worp.cgi.WORP_CGIComm  processing cookies >> 

The line that tells you the date/time/User ID of the login:

39 04/29/2008 10:31:05:315 INFO   ibi.worp.WORP_SM.doPost    user francism signed on successfully

Then there's the Startup Parameter "MRUSERLOG", which can be turned off/on via the Admin Console. It creates one file per user on a daily or hourly basis. The rudimentary documentation states:

"Determines whether a log file of user actions is created and, if so, how frequently".

I just tried it for the first time and it logs Dashboard logins, though the content of the log file does not contain the login id, only the file name does: "mr_francism_0429_10.log", stored in Drive:\ibi\client53\wfc\web\cgi.

I hope there's something here to get you started...

What is the reason for tracking logins?

Where we are we have a standard call structure for all MRE programs.

We were able to add in an include that gets the MRE User and write it to a DB, with run time, program name, etc.

The result is a set of statistics that we can report to management on the useage of the dashboard environment.

Thank you for all your help,

I actually decided to go the handraulic route. I have created a little ajax call that fires a request to a fex that I created to store the username, time and I am hoping someone can help me figure out a way to add the actual portal they are accessing into that equation as well. Here is how I am doing it.

On each of our portals the opening page is a welcome screen. Onload of the welcome screen I fire an ajax call which easily can grab the userid and datetime. Now I find that when I run the fex from within the tree view It can find the variable &WORP_MPV.EVAL, but when I run the same fex from within an ajax call that piece is lost. Any tips on how I can handle that?

Can I somehow access this variable from within my HTML layout page?

Is there a better way?

Thanks Again