About Usage tracking

anybody please provide me the usage tracking document?(what is thee usage of usage tracking and how to implement the usage tracking)

Start here, page 405
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/b31770.pdf
...and here
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=44785:24:1847061157213240::NO:24:P24_CONTENT_ID,P24_PREV_PAGE:4152,2

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Usage Tracking Catalog Problem

I am trying to setup usage tracking in OBIEE running on Windows 2008. Every time I try to open the sample catalog I receive the following error: Error initializing/loading existing Catalog: D:\UsageStatistics\UsageTracking. I have tried the file from three different installs with the same error. I am using 7-Zip to unpack the zip file.
Any ideas

Sorry about that -- this is 11g. I haven't gotten far. I have been using blogs like: http://obieeelegant.blogspot.com/2011/08/obiee11g-setting-up-usage-tracking.html to guide me. While looking at the sample files provided I just wanted to take a look at the catalog provided in OBIEEHOME\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\sample\usagetracking\usagetracking.zip. When I unzip and then try and open it in offline mode I am getting the error.

Get hit count of a page or a dashboard (usage tracking)

hi, experts, I found that I can get the query count (using count(*)) from usage tracking.
but is it possible to get the hit count on a particular tab page or on a particular dashboard? not the query count on a page or a dashboard.
thank you very much!

Hi Nicolae,
I did some digging and I found a few things out.
Point 1) The OBIEE .dll files are what build up the HTML files based on their code and some "customizable" code in the XML files located in the messages folder of OBIEE (C:\OracleBI\web\msgdb\messages). I say "customizable" with quotes because although these files are editable, it is not supported by Oracle and any upgrade will overwrite your changes. That being said, we cannot change the code in the dll files, so our only other option is to play with the XML files and see if we can inject our script somewhere in their code.
Point 2) The absolute last message from an XML file is the message that wrote the div with id="idSelsPermissionsDlgDiv". I had to do some grep'ing but I located the file which generated the final DIV. It is the commonuitemplates.xml file line 161. The bad thing is that the particular WebMessage is called multiple times ( I think three times based on my tests) in the building of the HTML. So if you put the code here, it would show up three different times in your HTML. Not ideal :(
Point 3) The dashboardtemplates.xml document, line 410 is executed about four lines before the final body tag. This WebMessage is only executed once, so it is the closest you can get to the bottom of the page without having a duplicate entry. I recommend you paste the code from google right before the final html tag on line 410.
Hope this helps!
-Joe

OBIEE 11g Usage Tracking -

Hello,
I'm looking for a better way than Administration/ Manage Sessions to keep an eye on long-running queries.
Is there a way to get OBI to place information about currently running (started but not ended) queries into usage tracking so that I can see long-running reports though an analysis in the Usage Tracking subject area?
As far as I can see, I can only query completed reports/dashboards from the usage Tracking Subject area. The "status" column in the Manage Session display is not availalble in the Usage Tracking subject area and a filter on End Time = null yields no results. Any ideas/strategies welcome! Thanks.

You could use the nqquery.log to look for queries that have started but not finished. You'd need to parse it for relevant start/finish and match up the IDs.
There is an nqquery.log parser on MOS somewhere, that might be a good starting point.

Really weird problem with Usage Tracking!

Hi guys
We are running OBIEE 11.1.1.6.5 on Exalytics and allmost all is fine and dandy. We have though one weird problem. When we first enabled usage tracking, we sudddenly got some errors on some of our dashboards, saying that we didn't have the privilegies to create temporary tables. Allright we got our user (which is a shared user) the privilegies to create temporary tables, and the reports with the problems started working again! Awesome! But low and behold - then Usage Tracking stopped working, not a single mentioning in the logfiles about it. Maybe an error or, the acknowledgement that Usage Tracking has started, which is the normal.
So basically we are running without Usage Tracking because the reports that gives us the problems are deemed more important... which they might be, but thats different story...
Any ideas to what is going on here? We have collected Usage Tracking data, while the reports were broke, so im quite confident that the setup is correct. But why would it stop, when giving "create table" privilege to our shared user?
Best regards, Jacob

What is the setting for UsageTrackingDirectInsert?
Have you tried chaging the output to file instead of database?
Please see:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/bi.1111/e10541/usage_track.htm#i1017237
Section 9.3, "Setting Up a Log File to Collect Information for Usage Tracking"
Michael
PS:
Hi Christian! :)

Usage Tracking for BI Server Hosting Multiple Repositories

Hi all,
I've got my BI Server hosting two repositories:
[ REPOSITORY ]
DemoApp1 = DemoApp1.rpd, DEFAULT;
DemoApp2 = DemoApp2.rpd;
And started two Presentation Services connecting to these two repositories respectively, and two web front-ends at /analytics and /analytics2 to display the two different catalogs.
Next, I enabled usage tracking with direct insert to the following physical table:
PHYSICAL_TABLE_NAME = "OBIEEREP".""."OBIEEREP"."S_NQ_ACCT" ;
CONNECTION_POOL = "OBIEEREP"."Connection Pool" ;
Both repositories has the above physical table and connection pool defined. In DemoApp1.rpd, "OBIEEREP"."Connection Pool" points to a database OBIEEDB1, and in DemoApp2.rpd, it points to a database OBIEEDB2.
But then the problem occurs. All usage tracking data are inserted to OBIEEDB1 only, no matter which web front-end they are from. I tried removing the "DEFAULT" from NQSConfig.ini, but this doesn't help.
Is there any way to configure BI Server to insert usage tracking data from /analytics to OBIEEDB1, and those from /analytics2 to OBIEEDB2?
Thanks very much!!!
Edited by: Kaphenda on Jan 18, 2010 2:34 PM

HI Kaphenda,
That's probably just a side-effect of having two repositories. Keep in mind that having multiple repositories and multiple presentation servers is not support by Oracle, so they were not on the hook to modify the Usage Tracking algorithm to write to two different databases. It seems to me like they either didn't anticipate this scenario, or they didn't want to program for this scenario.
I don't think you have too many options in terms of making OBIEE insert the traffic logs into the appropriate database. However, once the data has been inserted, you can do just about anything you want to it in terms of ETL, triggers, materialized views, etc.
Here's what I would recommend:
1) Have the OBIEE usage tracking information logged into a neutral schema.
2) Write a materialized view in database 1: CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW S_NQ_ACCT AS SELECT * from S_NQ_ACCT@NEUTRAL_SERVER WHERE REPOSITORY_NAME = 'DemoApp1'
3) Write a materialized view in database 2: CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW S_NQ_ACCT AS SELECT * from S_NQ_ACCT@NEUTRAL_SERVER WHERE REPOSITORY_NAME = 'DemoApp2'
You can specify the refresh frequency of these materialized views to be as frequent as you want. The great thing about this strategy is that you get the best of all worlds. Each database has the traffic information broken down by their personal RPD. But the neutral schema can provide Global reporting across both repositories which can be very valuable itself.
Good luck and if you found this post useful, please award points!
Best regards,
-Joe
Edited by: Joe Bertram on Jan 18, 2010 9:59 AM

Usage tracking is severely flawed, $135 of surprise overage!

Wow, just wow. Apparently, the usage tracking for Verizon is so severely delayed that it's impossible to know how much data you've actually used until the billing cycle ends, which can lead to HUGE amounts of surprise overage! And then Verizon holds you responsible for their flawed system after telling you to use it!
I'd seen other people post stories of surprise bill charges, so for a while now I've been taking screenshots of our data alerts and My Verizon usage meter just in case. And now, this happened: We ended the billing cycle with somewhere around 19.4 GB out of our 20 used (the number varied slightly between the iPhone and laptop, I've noticed the iPhone tends to update slightly faster), with the intent of getting as much out of it as possible but still leaving cushion as, after all, that number is an "estimate". But when the bill came, not only did it say we had passed our 20 GB limit (as said, My Verizon and the #DATA text messages had said at the end of the day that we still had somewhere around 0.6 GB to spare, which I thought would be more than enough cushion) but we had 8.5 GB of OVERAGE!
So I opened a chat with a Verizon rep, and we talked about it. At first we thought it was due to a store not backdating a plan change properly, but then we found that... Well, apparently Verizon is absolutely terrible at keeping track of how much data you've used until it's tallied up after the end of the cycle, to the point where relying on it can completely screw you over like this and it's better to manually keep track of each device, and then crunch the numbers yourself. We've been with Verizon for a decade and never seen anything like this... Here's the chat transcript:
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So, now we're going to call financial services and see if anything can be worked out. If it can, and we decide to stay with Verizon, we'll be keeping track of data usage from each individual device and adding it up, which is a hassle, but at least it should work. What's the point of Verizon providing these data tracking tools if they give you false information? Worse, why did they tell us to use them to keep track of our usage, while knowing very well that they don't work?! Do they just want to scam us into giving them more money for tons of data they hide from us until it's too late? Whatever the case, this is terrible.
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It's not false information, it takes a couple of days for the information to be received from other carriers' towers, it is the same as minutes and texts, maybe you should get over it and get a life and stop compaining about your data usage, did you have this problem 10 years ago, no get over it.

Definitions of time-related fields of usage tracking data

Hi all,
After reading the related documentations on usage tracking, I'm still confused about the true meaning of the following fields:
COMPILE_TIME_SEC The time in seconds required to compile the query.
C UM_DB_TIME_SEC The total amount of time in seconds that the Oracle BI Server waited for back-end physical databases on behalf of a logical query.
TOTAL_TIME_SEC The time in seconds that the Oracle BI Server spent working on the query while the client waited for responses to its query requests.
START_TS The date and time the logical query was submitted.
END_TS The date and time the logical query finished. The start and end timestamps also reflect any time the query spent waiting for resources to become available.
My questions are:
1. Is TOTAL_TIME_SEC = C U M_DB_TIME_SEC + COMPILE_TIME_SEC? Why are there cases where C U M_DB_TIME_SEC > TOTAL_TIME_SEC ?
2. I've logged cases where (END_TS - START_TS) > TOTAL_TIME_SEC. Why would this happen?
Could someone clarify the meaning of these fields for me please? Thanks very much!!
=================
I have logged the following data with usage tracking, posting here as examples:
1.
compile_time_sec = 0
c um_db_time_sec = 23
total_time_sec = 12
start_ts = 18-AUG-09 (14:15:47)
end_ts = 18-AUG-09 (14:16:00)
end_ts - start_ts (in sec) = 13
cache_ind_flg = N
num_cache_hits = 0
num_cache_inserted = 1
2.
compile_time_sec = 0
c um_db_time_sec = 125
total_time_sec = 110
start_ts = 21-AUG-09 (15:45:37)
end_ts = 21-AUG-09 (16:47:35)
end_ts - start_ts (in sec) = 3718
cache_ind_flg = N
num_cache_hits = 0
num_cache_inserted = 0
3.
compile_time_sec = 0
c um_db_time_sec = 1252
total_time_sec = 932
start_ts = 24-AUG-09 (17:23:40)
end_ts = 24-AUG-09 (17:49:27)
end_ts - start_ts (in sec) = 1547
cache_ind_flg = N
num_cache_hits = 0
num_cache_inserted = 0

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OBI 11.1.1.6 Usage Tracking

Hi,
I want to enable Usage Tracking in OBI and I'm wondering if I can use table S_NQ_ACCT which was created by RCU and can I create S_ETL_DAY time table in DEV_BIPLATFORM schema created by RCU?

Yep, that's the right way to do it. Note that the 11.1.1.6 release notes say the bug about having a 10g version of the usage tracking RPD fixed to be 11g doesn't seem right - I still get errors that the version is incompatible.
Thx,
Scott

Info on Usage tracking.

Hi,
I have to work on Usage Tracking, I dont have much idea how to go about it?
What does it exactly means?
If anybody has worked on it, Please let me know.
Regards,
Apoorv

Hi.
It allows you to set up usage tracking tables in database and create usage reports to monitor queries.
You can use the existing RPD in ...\server\Sample\usagetracking and also you can set manually usage tracking reports in your catalog.
Oracle by example:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe_bi/bi_ee_1013/usage_tracking/usage_tracking.htm
And this:
http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/08/obiee-setting-up-usage-tracking.html
Regards
Goran
http://108obiee.blogspot.com

Oracle Usage Tracking dialog

hi
After installing JDeveloper 11.1.1.5.0 (and other 11g versions before that) and starting JDeveloper for the first time, an "Oracle Usage Tracking" dialog is shown with the message
"In order to continuously improve our products, Oracle is interested in learning about product usage. To that end, automated reports can occasionally be sent to Oracle describing the product features in use. No personally identifiable information will be sent and the report will not affect performance. You can review Oracle's privacy policy on our website. "
and a checkbox "Allow automated usage reporting to Oracle".
see the screenshot at http://www.consideringred.com/files/oracle/img/2011/OracleUsageTracking111150.png
- (q1) Where can details be found about this feature, like which information it sends exactly, or when?
- (q2) Has Oracle published anything related to the results of this "Usage Tracking" feature?
many thanks
Jan Vervecken

Hi Jan,
I'm not aware of a public wiki page or anything like that which explains the data being gathered on this feature.
What it does, is create an xml file after each close of the IDE. It records some of the API usage during a session (defined as start to close of the IDE).
The file is saved to this location by default on a windows machine with an install with the "single user" option selected.
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\JDeveloper\system11.1.1.5.37.60.13\o.ide.usages-tracking
You can see what this file gathers if you like, by setting some bogus proxy info in the Tools --> Preference in JDev to stop JDev from being able to connect to the tracking server. Then just doing some normal work and stopping JDeveloper. The file will stay there until it can connect again.
Of course this will only happen if you have opt-in to the usage-reporting in the first place.
The data that is gathered is used internally by the product management team to see which features are used more often in relation to each other, etc. It is not made available publicly.
Here is a report that I just did on my own machine. This is the result of opening an extension.xml file and then opening a .java file.
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<usages xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/jdeveloper/110000/usages-tracking-data">
<hash n="system-info">
<value n="build-label" v="JDEVADF_11.1.1.5.0_GENERIC_110409.0025.6013"/>
<value n="dev-build" v="false"/>
<value n="guid" v="07dd49ee-012e-1000-8001-0a9a27d99b84"/>
<value n="jdk-version" v="1.6.0_24"/>
<value n="operating-system" v="Windows XP"/>
<value n="product-edition" v="oracle.studio, oracle.j2ee, oracle.jdeveloper"/>
<value n="product-name" v="Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 1"/>
<value n="product-version" v="11.1.1.5.37.60.13"/>
<value n="session-end-time" v="1305043200531"/>
<value n="session-id" v="1305043105550"/>
<value n="session-start-time" v="1305043105550"/>
<value n="user-role" v="<none>"/>
</hash>
<hash n="usage-data">
<list n="activities">
<hash>
<value n="extension-product-id" v="oracle.jdevimpl.extensiondt.editor.ExtensionManifestEditor"/>
<value n="property-id" v="oracle.jdeveloper.extensiondt.model.ExtensionManifestNode"/>
<value n="time-stamp" v="1305043182769"/>
<value n="usage-type" v="OPEN_EDITOR"/>
</hash>
<hash>
<value n="extension-product-id" v="oracle.jdevimpl.extensiondt.editor.ExtensionManifestEditor"/>
<value n="property-id" v="oracle.jdeveloper.extensiondt.model.ExtensionManifestNode"/>
<value n="time-stamp" v="1305043182832"/>
<value n="usage-type" v="ACTIVATE_EDITOR"/>
</hash>
<hash>
<value n="extension-product-id" v="oracle.ide.ceditor.CodeEditor"/>
<value n="property-id" v="oracle.jdeveloper.model.JavaSourceNode"/>
<value n="time-stamp" v="1305043190096"/>
<value n="usage-type" v="OPEN_EDITOR"/>
</hash>
<hash>
<value n="extension-product-id" v="oracle.ide.ceditor.CodeEditor"/>
<value n="property-id" v="oracle.jdeveloper.model.JavaSourceNode"/>
<value n="time-stamp" v="1305043190767"/>
<value n="usage-type" v="ACTIVATE_EDITOR"/>
</hash>
</list>
</hash>
</usages>
Hope that helps explain things a bit. Let me know if you have any other Q's.
--jb

Usage Tracking for BI Publisher

We need to track Oracle BI EE Suite user's activity. There is Usage Tracking option in exSiebel products making possible to track what and when user did. It's needed to do similar audit for BI Publisher.
It's works "by itself" for Publisher reports built on top of BI Server infrastructure. Usage Tracking does all the job. But what should we do to audit reports using direct sql requests to the database?
PS
We have sucurity model integrated with Oracle BI EE Server

Here is an interview with Kurt Wolff, which is one of the original OBIEE developers from the nQuire days:
http://obibb.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/obibb-%E2%80%93-interviews-kurt-wolff/
This is particularly relevant of how I feel about OBIEE 11g so far...
"I don’t really know if there are any new features that are important to me in my current work or not. There may be features that help Oracle sell more product, but that’s different.
Over two years ago I submitted a list of 20 “little” enhancements that, as someone who on a daily basis worked developing analytic apps with OBIEE, I thought would be really beneficial. They were “little” in the sense that I thought the dev team could knock them all out in less than three weeks’ time. Seriously big impact with seriously little work.
Instead, we’re getting what appears to be a major re-write of the product, which raises questions in my mind about compatibility, unlearning, and new bugs. What I know about new features – well, they’re not so compelling. Sure, if you have a need to integrate Essbase with your other data, that’s good. But in my present situation, it’s irrelevant, and I’m planning on taking a lot of time to evaluate the new release before moving ahead with it."

Do we have any option to track the number of downloaded reports from the OBIEE dashboard or Analysis by the user using usage tracking.

Do we have any option to track the number of downloaded reports from the OBIEE dashboard or Analysis by the user using usage tracking.

I'll ask the question of our onsite Microsoft consulting guys, but it's my understanding that as enterprise admins, we have no controls over it. This is an outcome of putting the end-users in charge of their own destiny.
We can revoke a user's entitlement to Office365ProPlus in the portal and via scripts, but AFAIK only the user controls the allocation of their entitlement.
Revoking an assignment/allocation, when logged in as the user, doesn't require access to the assigned/allocated computer, but if the information about the assigned/allocated computers in the portal is vague or ambiguous, it's easy to revoke the "wrong" one.
There's not much here in this forum about the hosted/cloudy aspects, since this forum is mainly about the client-side bits (the client applications, setup and configuration of those) - so in here, I usually refer people off to the O365 community for the
portal and hosted stuff.
(we have MS onsite at the moment for a big planning piece, around O365 and also Win8.1 and VDI. I'm not usually this lucky to have those guys on tap ;)
Don
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USAGE TRACKING Error in Obiee 11.1.1.6.0

Hi All,
I have configured usage tracking in our Obiee 11.1.1.6.0 version properly using enterprise manager. And, I have also created a a subject area in the repository called "Usage Tracking" where I gave all the details of "DEV_BIPLATFORM" schema in the connection pool as well. Now when I go to analysis to build a report using same subject area, I can't see any results. I checked the SQL and its quering from the right table "S_NQ_ACCT" but just can't populate the usage information. Also I checked in the database. The table is empty there too!! But It works fine for Obiee 11.1.1.5.0 version.
I referred following oracle link to configure usage tracking in Obiee 11.1.1.6.0.
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/bi/bi1116/ut/ut.html
PLEASE HELP!!
Thanks,
BK.

Hi,
Thank You for your quick reply. The table permission was alright.
Its very strange that, we configure usage tracking in obiee 11.1.1.6.0 using enterprise manager and that how all document says. And then it should automatically update the "NQSCONFIG.INI". But it was not updated there. So we need to change all configuration settings in both "Enterprise Manager" and also in the "NQSCONFIG.INI". Then it works fine!!
Thanks,
BK.

BI publisher report : why "Database Usage Tracking Summary" repport is empty ?

Hi everyone,
I'me using BI publisher intergated to Grid Control12c (R3), trying to get "Database Usage Tracking Summary" report folowing Oracle documentation (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e24473/usage_reports.htm#EMADM13568)
And I have 2 problems :
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Echec de la distribution.
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at oracle.xdo.service.delivery.impl.DeliveryServiceI
2) Since FTPburst delivery is not working, i decide to try mail delivery. The delivery itself is working but the report is empty (see Sortie1.xls in attachements)
So i don't know why is it empty.
Can someone guide me ?

Hi,
Thank You for your quick reply. The table permission was alright.
Its very strange that, we configure usage tracking in obiee 11.1.1.6.0 using enterprise manager and that how all document says. And then it should automatically update the "NQSCONFIG.INI". But it was not updated there. So we need to change all configuration settings in both "Enterprise Manager" and also in the "NQSCONFIG.INI". Then it works fine!!
Thanks,
BK.

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