how can i know who is using contributor application(users list)

[anilkumar]

hi

how can i know who is using contributor applicaion(login users list track)
i want to track users list

please  forward stesps if possible

thanks in advance

Regards
Anil K.marri

[shethsameer]

Hi there,

Select the application in Contributor Admin Console (CAC) and then click the MAIL icon on the top left hand, now select the type of users whom you want to check (i.e. Users who are currently editing or users who are currently annotating, etc...) once selected CAC will pop-up your email client new message window with all the users list in the 'TO' section.

Hope this help.

Cheers

Sameer Sheth

[anilkumar]

hi sameer
thank you for your information, and also i need information who are login(logindetails)

Regards
ANIL K.MARRI

[shethsameer]

Hi there,

Do you require the User_ID's of those folks who are currently accessing the model?

Cheers

Sameer Sheth

[anilkumar]

hi sameer

thank you for helping

yes i want to  track user id and name

Thanks & Regards
Anil K.Marri

[shethsameer]

The IBM Cognos Administration and Security Guide has some fairly detailed information about how to set up and use the Cognos logging facilities. This documentation is mostly aimed at administrators, but it is useful for planning how to lay out your environment as well, since you have to make more choices about where and how you store the log data.

By default there is only has one Cognos logging target for "File." This set up has the various Cognos components logging to cogserver.log. This file log is useful for administrators since it can be used with some standard administration tools like "tail" to watch the log as events occur. It is not a very useful format for doing analysis and reporting, however.

The logging configuration in Cognos Configuration can be configured with multiple different targets of various types. In addition to the File type mentioned above, it can be configured to write to the system log, a named windows event log, or a SQL database. Using an SQL database will let you then consume the data using the Cognos tools you're already familiar with and using – Framework Manager, Datasources, and Report and Query Studio. Cognos even provides a sample package for doing reporting against this database. They provide a handful of reports which can be run to start understanding who, how, and when your Cognos environment is being used.

There is quite a wealth of information hidden in these tables. There is some Cognos documentation about what the tables and their data available for reference. Basically the types of events are split out into various tables.

Cognos Tables
Cognos User Logons Table

This table is fairly obvious: it captures the log on and log off event for people accessing Cognos. It also includes "timeout" information for when a session is not explicitly stopped and instead is terminated after a set period of time. From my research, it seems that shutting down Cognos will result in unbalanced logins. This means sessions could have a logon, without a time out or log off.

To enable this table your Content Manager service needs to be set to at least basic logging.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Sameer Sheth