Is there a way to identify Mobile users & Desktop Users ?

[raj.kanag.s]

Guys,
         Is there a way to identify Mobile users & Desktop Users, logging into Cognos portal?  If Yes, Please let me know!


Thanks,

[Grim]

At the web server level you could catch some of them by the URL they request.

http://<server>/ibmcognos/
vs
http://<server>/ibmcognos/m (CGI)
http://<server>/ibmcognos/m/isapi

Though they can hit the regular URL and they get prompted for choice of site.

Not sure if there is anything in the audit logs. We don't use mobile here (yet), so it's not installed.  :-\

[bdbits]

What are you trying to accomplish by knowing the device they are using?

If this is for redirection purposes, you can parse standard headers and attempt to detect it. It will be somewhat unreliable, but if you google around there is plenty of information about how to do this (sometimes called "browser sniffing"). It's kind of frowned upon by the web development community these days, but I won't dive into the arguments about it. Google is your friend.