Hi BOBer’s,
Is it available in the repository tables to know wich user runs a BO report??
OBJ_M_DOCATVAR table contains some report metadata information like last refresh date and refresh duration … etc but it doesn’t contain ACTOR!!
I’m using BO5.1, repository on ORACLE 9i.
The only way to get that information is if your WebI server has auditing turned on, and your users all use Infoview or ZABO. It’s not in the repository.
You can use a tool called Enterprise Manager from ebiexperts or infosol that will track your Full client activity, even for reports that are not present in the repos (personal docs).
You turn on WebI 1.x/2.x/6.x legacy auditing via the WebI Adminstrator Console. [If your “full-client” users are ZABO, it will then capture their activity as well, since it’s three-tier rather than two-tier.]
As I recall, it defaults to logging to log files. Some folks load those log files into database files on their own. You should be able to find out information in one or more of the online manuals for your version.
Alternatively, you can configure the logging to go to the database – but people have sometimes reported that they had problems with the logging stopping when the database goes down and back up, if the WebI logging wasn’t likewise turned off and back on (or redirected to log to disk rather than database).
You should be able to review such past topics in the WebI and/or WebI Server forums.
Hi Anitha,
I am working in BO 5.1.2 version.Can I have log file giving me the information for report retrival time and how many users are using a report?
I don’t regularly run reports from the data from the logs, so I can’t give you lots of specifics, sorry. I do know that in version 5, it seemed like information was sometimes catch-as-catch-can. Perhaps someone who runs such reports a lot from the logs-into-the-database can give you more specific advice.
In the meantime, you could take a look at the “Report on WebI Audit information” from BOB’s Downloads, which I believe is specifically for 5.1.x.