[analog-help] User Id and Password

[Aengus]

On Monday, October 02, 2006 6:28 PM [EDT],
Suresh, Mukund <msuresh at qualcomm.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to identify the usernames of the users securely logged
> on to the website? We need this to relate the maximum number of users
> within an organization logged on to our website.

If you are logging userIDs in your logfiles, then Analog can generate a 
report on the UserIDs in the logfile.

But Analog won't generate a report showing the number of "unique visitors" 
in each 5 minute period (or other time period). This is a version of FAQ 
128 - http://analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq128, You're trying to 
cross-reference users versus time, and Analog doesn't do that.

If you want to find out how many Users are recorded in your logfile between 
say 2PM and 3PM, you can use the TO and FROM commands to create a report for 
just that hour - you would have to run a seperate report for each hour if 
that's what you wanted.

(Note that because the web is "stateess", there isn't really any such 
concept as being "logged in" to a web server. Each request is authenticated 
seperately, and is handled as a unique event for the server. It's not like a 
telnet session or a remote desktop session, where you maintain a connection 
to the server for the duration of the session, even if you aren't actually 
doing anything, and the session is idle).

Aengus