Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Web Function Usage Tracking

Previous releases have attempted to provide usage tracking beyond the standard IIS logging, but have not been all that useful. Manage 2000 release 7.3 provides better tracking by recording web function start events in the WEB_USAGE_LOG file within the UniData database where Manage 2000 reporting tools are available. To enable tracking simply go to WEB.CONSTANTS screen 5 and turn it on.
Enter 'Y' to post WEB_USAGE_LOG records as web functions are run on this account. Enter 'N' to disable posting of log records. A null entry is treated the same as 'N'. Control the purging of WEB_USAGE_LOG records through PURGE.CONTROLS. The purge type is WUL and the standard configuration is to purge back to the last 3 weeks once a month. View log records through WEB.USAGE.

The standard functionality provides lots of identifiers, but if you want meaningful company and person names you will need to set up some I-Descriptors in the WEB_USAGE_LOG file and copy the WEB.USAGE REPORT.BUILD report from the MT library to your local library and add the fields you want.

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