Publisher logon report

Hi Jacek,

This information came from the ARIS Community here:

There's a folder named 'Apache2.2' where you can find a log file named access.log. It's not real pretty but it's possible to get it into Excel and do some filtering.

Another thread in here mentions a program named AWSTAT which can be loaded on the BP server which sounds like a better choice, just haven't got there myself yet.

Best Regards,

Bob

Hmm... ARIS Business Publisher is based on Tomcat AS/Catalina. I don't need Apache or other www server to use it - so there isn't such directory and log file :(

originally BPublisher logs errors like wrong password or user, but success - not. As I found there isn't possibility to add proper logger to BPublisher. So I have no idea what to do.

Jacek,

From ABP 7.1 SR2010_08 on, this kind of logging has been implemented.

All you got to do is to change the values "false" to "true" in the configuration file "SpringCoreMonitoring.xml" located at ...\ARIS7.1\BPServer\tomcat\webapps\businesspublisher\WEB-INF\Spring\Core

Look for the parameter: <bean id="loginLogoutMonitor"

and set value="true". Don't forget to restart the ABP's service.

Regards,

Claudio

Our Business Publisher users are authenticated to a central DS LDAP server, so we are able to look at the LDAP log for simple things. Claudio, can you tell me if you are using LDAP using the Spring configuration?

For more advanced reporting and logging of user activity, we recently turned on HTTP Access Logs out of Tomcat. We feed those to the Urchin Web Analytics program, which can display some nice graphs and statistics of user activity.

To turn on access logs, in the ..\ARIS7.1\BPServer\tomcat\conf\server.xml, line 339, I put this...

        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"

                 directory="logs"  prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"

                 pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>

...and restart the Publisher service.

We are using ARIS 7.1 SR5, Tomcat, Windows 2003.

Hope this helps as well!

Brian Toops

Cargill, Inc.

ARIS System Analyst

I'm very sorry, but in my installation there isn't file SpringCoreMonitoring.xml

I will try this (tomcat config.xml), thanks

Ok, post commands are visible, but there isn't any information about user account used to logon :(

I think, that I have no choice and I must extend BP database or, maybe upgrade BP (now I'm using 7.1.0.452596)

Claudio, I've upgraded BPublisher to the nevest version. It works! :))))))))

Thanks!

 Hi!

Claudio, I've set "loginLogoutMonitor" to "true" value and restarted server. So I wonder in which file can I see the logon stats now?

Thanks in advance.

You should see the file in the server under ...\ARIS7.1\BPserver\tomcat\webapps\businesspublisher\log

Regards,

Claudio