Web%20Monitoring

1
Web Monitoring

• Keep track of who does what
• Logs show information
• Must be configured show the right information
• Current task
• Customize logs to make link selector work

2
Link Selector Needs

• What pages visited during a session
• Timestamp
• Total number of times a page is visited
• Page visiting stats across sessions

3
HTTP Server Logs

• Apache, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet, etc.
• Covers Link Selector needs for static pages
• Cant tell which pages from WebSphere are
  dynamic, so doesnt cover all possibilities

4
WebSphere Access Logs

• Trace file log should be capable of recording
• Which page components are shown
• Whether showing static html fetched, or specific
  queries
• If not, it is just Java output, for example
• tracefile.write( Fetched links that match
  id\n )
• Which session they were shown in
• tracefile.write( Start sessions
  threadId\n )

5
Example???

• IBM is on my Bad List