The Session Monitor menu enables a WebFOCUS Administrator to track all WebFOCUS Client sessions, as well as connections and activity on the WebFOCUS Reporting Server(s). To refresh the information displayed, select the Refresh every checkbox and specify the frequency in seconds using the Seconds checkbox. The Session Monitor displays information about connected users, report requests, and reporting server nodes:

To refresh the information displayed, select the Refresh every checkbox and specify the frequency in seconds using the Seconds checkbox.

Administrators can enable or disable logging for all current sessions by clicking on ON/OFF next to Logging for all current users. To enable or disable logging for individual sessions, click ON or OFF under the Logging column. By default, all log information is located in install_drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS77\logs.

For each session, the following information is available:

Monitor Id

A unique randomly generated identifier for each client session. The Session Monitor utilizes Session Cookie information retrieved from the Web Browser. Some Web Browser versions do not always clear this information when closing and reopening the Web browser.

Therefore, the Monitor ID within the Session Monitor display is not updated with a new Monitor ID, even after closing and reopening a Web Browser.

Mode

Identifies the product component that started the session and provides information about all active requests. Information about an active request, such as the application name and report procedure, is highlighted in green and displays next to Request Info->. The product component values are as follows:

WFCUS

Specifies the Business Intelligence Dashboard.

WFC

Specifies the WebFOCUS Administration Console.

WFMR

Specifies the Managed Reporting applet.

WFRQ

Specifies a report request from a self-service application.

Mode Started

Specifies the time the request started. The format is

hh-mm-ss

where:

hh

Is the hour of the day.

mm

Is the time in minutes.

ss

Is the time in seconds.

Client User

Specifies the user ID that started the client session. A value of null indicates that it is a request from a self-service application.

Logging

Enables or disables logging for an individual session or a current user.

Trace

Enables or disables WFServlet, Client Connector, and WebFOCUS Reporting Server traces for each session.

Total Requests

Specifies the total number of requests made to the WebFOCUS Reporting Server.

Total Seconds

Specifies the total time in seconds it took for the total number of requests specified by Total Requests to complete.

Server Stat

Specifies the status of each request. For example, Last req indicates the last completed request and Active indicates a current, running request.

Server Started

Specifies the time the request started. The format is

hh-mm-ss

where:

hh

Is the hour of the day.

mm

Is the time in minutes.

ss

Is the time in seconds.

Server User

Specifies the reporting server user ID.

Server Node

Is the reporting server that is running the request.