SEssions reporting - show_sessions - Dfc version - dfcversion.properties

Hi,

I've built some session reporting process which uses the show_sessions to regularly list the active sessions opened on the content server(s) serving our docbase. now, we have several dfc clients accessing this docbase (jms/acs/webservices/webtop/da/other publishing tools/dts/...) and I would like to precisely analyze wich of those clientś open sessions.
The problem is that I could think of only tagging those diferent clients by using the dfcversion.properties that is part of the dfc jar and adding an additional sufix to the version number. Now, I only know of two processes which use this information: the bof deployment module and the content server client version restriction.
I did not perform the necessary tests fir the moment but I would like to know whether someone thinks of any problem that may arise with this method. I would also like to know what you think would be the best way to add the suffixes: should I append a dot + some letters, no dots? Etc...

thanks

Stephane

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DCTM_Guru

Have you tried logging the dm_login event (from Audit Management) and seeing what information the CS is capturing?

stephanemarcon

hi Johnny,

i will test your proposal and come back with the results. would you personnally fear adding a suffix in the version tag in theDfVersion.properties so that the client_lib version could be used to identify the originator of the session precisely?

thanks

Stephane

sivarry

Hi Stephane,

This is a nice idea but not sure whether it is a EMC supported approach.

You can also look into the client_host and user_name attribute combinations to find the client details instead of modifying dfc.jar for every client.

-Siva

stephanemarcon

hi Siva,

Well, I'm nearlu sure this is not a supported thing, which is why I'm posting the question to see the feedback from others who may have done the same. Now, about your proposal of using the client _ host and user_name, I must be more clear about the difficulty to use those. There are some cases where those do not help in distinguishing two sessions. We for example have several jboss nodes running on the same machine ( for load balacing the load) and in this case, it is difficult to know whcih node generated a given session. Now add to those that the same machine hosts several dfs-based webservices, and the distinction gets even worse. Now, if you consider the sessions inited on the content server side, by run_as_server methods, and consider the fact the acs also generates sessions on the content server, you see the client_host/ user couple is not sufficient to analyze show_sessions results...

I think I will give it a go and see whether everything goes ok. As I see SP numbers are mentioned in the dfc version, it may be I can add any other characters there.

Stephane

sivarry

Hi Stephane,

I completely agree with your points!!! Kindly update your test results as well.

Good luck

-Siva