Forms Configuration Monitoring

Question

Using OAS 9.0.4.2 Forms/Reports. I notice with EM I can now view user session information for active Forms sessions. Is a history of this information kept in a logfile somewhere or can I enable it to log somewhere? I would like to analyze specifically what form configurations are being used and how often. None of the OC4J_BI_Forms logs contain the information and I used LogLoader to search for some form configuration names and didn't have any hits.

Answer 1

Those em_xxxxx.rti files are created when em_mode=1 & there should be one for every connected session.
It seems like some get left behind when there are crashes or abnormal disconnections, but that his a hypothesis about why they get left behind. I'm not certain.
When a user logs out of the application, the rti file is deleted. You could get a pretty good sampling of data by writing a script that parses this using grep & writes the data to a log file. You could run it as a cron job to collect the data regularly, but it is possible that users are logged on for less than a minute & you don't collect the info from the file before it is deleted.
I have a simple script that reads thorugh the rti files and shows who the connected users are. See example. Not helpful for your situation, but may be helpful for you in creating your own script.
Cordially,
Steve
NUM_USERS=0
DATE_STARTED=`date`
echo ""
echo "MAXe user sessions as of "$DATE_STARTED" on `hostname`"
echo ""
for MAXE_USER in `ps -A | grep frmweb | cut -c0-6 | sed 's/ //'`
do
echo $MAXE_USER
let "NUM_USERS = $NUM_USERS + 1"
EM_FILE="$ORACLE_HOME"/forms/em/em_"$MAXE_USER".rti
cat $EM_FILE | grep -v "listener = " | grep -v "config = "
echo ""
done
echo $NUM_USERS" users logged on as of "$DATE_STARTED"."
echo ""