[analog-help] How many users are logged on at a given time and howlong are they logged on

[Aengus]

On Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:59 PM [EDT],
D'Amore, Chris <dmrc at its.rochester.edu> wrote:

> Is there any way to show how many users are logged in at a given time

No. The Time Reports only report on the number of Requests, Page Requests 
and Bytes transferred for each time period: 
http://analog.cx/docs/timereps.html

This is also a varition of the (infamous) FAQ 128:
http://analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq128
You can generate a User Report or a Host Report (with all the usual caveats) 
for a specific time period, but you'd have to run 24 individual reports to 
find out how many "users" were online for each hour in a day, for example.

> and possibly how long they are logged on for?

That depends. If you set a "session cookie", and you use that as the %u 
field in your LOGFORMAT, you can specify the "Date and time of first access" 
and "Date and time of last access" columns in the User Report with
USERCOLS ED

You'd have to use a script to parse these times to get a "session length" if 
you felt that that information was valuable - it's not something that is 
built into Analog.

Aengus