Portal Activity Data Collector -- Multiple directories

We are using the Portal Activity Data Collector and want to know if Sol Man 7 EHP 1 will pick up the files from more than one location or do we still have to put them into a central directory to be analyzed?
Thanks for your assistance!
-- Jackie McCarty

Hi,
please have a look in the note 1309740 there is a pdf with a whitepaper for the Portal Activity Data Collector.
The padc file was read in differnt folder. In our enviroment whe have 3 server nodes and each of this has his hown padc folder.
Regards
Daniel

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I am looking for the approach where we can upload the data collected by portal activity data collector service into BI for generating report from BI. If anyone has done this before, what are your strategy in this case? I think Portal Activity Data Collector is more detailed over Portal Activity Reporting. Any thoughts on generating the custom reports?
Kindly help me with your valuable information
Thanks,
Ameya

Hello Ameya,
We are using Activity Reporting service for KM activity tracking and activity data collector for PCD access logs. What we do in our environment is , we have created a custom tablespace in our oracle DB of portal. We upload these logs to db using shell scripts (flat file format, later which is converted to a more maningful schema structure which can be queried upon). We have specific procedures in db for getting the required reports.
Another option would be to upload to solution manager where the reports can be generated using BI.
File formats of these Activity reports can be modified by configuration.
Regards,
Vinod.

Activity Reporting X Activity Data Collector

Hi,
there are two types of activity reporting in SAP Enterprise Portal, Activity Data Collector and Activity Reporting. The SAP documentation for the Activity Data Collector
(http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/47/8ac2e51b141e1ee10000000a42189d/content.htm) specifies that the "Directory Name" property can be either a relative path or an absolute path on the server (<drive>:\dir).
However, the SAP documentation for the Activity Reporting (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/45/74eeda9ba26975e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm) does not explicitly specify that the "Directory Name" property can be an absolute path on the server.
I've started the Activity Reporting for KM documents, but I don't have permissions to re-start the server anytime in order to test all the possible configurations. For now, the "Directory Name" is an absolute path. Can the "Directory Name" property of Actitity Reporting (KM) be an absolute path on the server? In order to start the Activity Reporting (KM), is it required to first start the Activity Data Collector?
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Daniel

Hi Daniel,
I don't think you need to activate the first Active Data Collector you mentioned,
there are two ADC releases - one for Portal and one for KM
Does your requeriments specify you must use an absolute path? Otherwise I'd
suggest using a relative path (/usr/sap/<SID>/...) - haven't tested absolute paths though.
so I don't know if that'd work.
There is How-To guide at SDN with detailed explanation of these topics, search and
elearning pages isn't working for me atm else I'd paste you the link but look for it:
SAP Enterprise Portal Usage Reporting (or Portal Activity Reporting)
by John Polus, Jan 14th, 2009
PDF 1.04Mb
regards,
Rafael

Problem with Activity Data Collector with web dynpro

Hi Gurus,
We try to use the Activity Data Collector to create portal statistics. We activate the service, define the file formats, and files generates successfully. After that, we load those files into BI, and create some query. Analyze queries look the following problem:
There is a web dynpro application which in portal (in web dynpro iview), and the log files non contains every hit.
For example, 2000 users used this application, but the log files contains only 13 users.
Can yout help me, what is the problem?
Thanks

Dwa-
Did you create activity reporting service similar to below link.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/45/74eeda9ba26975e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
If you have used it. Activity reporting service which you created will not record the Webdynpro activity. I think the above one is more of KM reporting service.
Try creating activity report with below link. But portal version required is EHP1.
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Hello all,
I have configured the Activity Data Collector (ADC) and it is working as designed.
But when I stop the Portal Activity Report, the other activity reporting feature, the ADC stops working too.. Does anybody seen this behavior and know why this is happening? We want to get rid of the PA Report, because it seems to be bug-ridden.
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Raj Balakrishnan

Hi,
If you are considering switching to ADC, please remember that it is a little bit different kind of report. There is a SAP Note 1084379 - Portal Activity Report - Latest version (SDA file) that can help you to solve the Activity report bug problem. In case you willing to try ADC
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Reg:Activity Data Collector

Hi All,
Greetings!!!
Happy New Year!!!
Coming to the query, i need to implement Activity Data Collector Report, but the configuration needs an application named "com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector"; but that is not available in our enterprise portal 6.0. So kindly tell whether this comes under which support package. Or to resolve this issue.
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Piiyush

Hello,
If you needed a graphical front-end or multiple reporting capabilities, one would need to build something themselves as described at the link above, which may not be convenient, nor offer all the usage stats you are looking for. The ADC simply does not offer a graphical front-end and does not come with integrated reports.
Otherwise a far easier solution is to switch to a 3rd party application like Click Stream SAP Portal analyzing solution from Sweetlets. (http://www.sweetlets.com/click_stream_overview.html or http://ecohub.sdn.sap.com/irj/ecohub/solutions/clickstream) This plug n' play application offers various SAP Portal usage reports complete with a visually appealing Flex frontend.
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Activating Activity Data Collector

Hi,
I have configured the activity Data Collector according to the below documentation.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/47/8ac2e51b141e1ee10000000a42189d/frameset.htm
But it appears that the ADC only starts colllecting logs, if the Portal Activity Report Service is also turned on. I thought ADC was supposed to be a competing activity collection technology and I dont understand this dependancy.
Am I right in this or am I missing something else?
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Raj Balakrishnan

Hello,
If you needed a graphical front-end or multiple reporting capabilities, one would need to build something themselves as described at the link above, which may not be convenient, nor offer all the usage stats you are looking for. The ADC simply does not offer a graphical front-end and does not come with integrated reports.
Otherwise a far easier solution is to switch to a 3rd party application like Click Stream SAP Portal analyzing solution from Sweetlets. (http://www.sweetlets.com/click_stream_overview.html or http://ecohub.sdn.sap.com/irj/ecohub/solutions/clickstream) This plug n' play application offers various SAP Portal usage reports complete with a visually appealing Flex frontend.
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Burt

NW04 SP21 Activity Data Collector service unavailable for configuration

Hello Portal experts,
We have installed SP21 on NW04 and w were wanting to utilize the Activity Data Collector (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/57/a21f407b402402e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm) to perform some performance and usage analysis. When attempting to activate the service I find that it is not available.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/46/e42c3ed63369b5e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
1. Navigate to System Administration > System Configuration > Service Configuration.
2. In the Portal Catalog, navigate to the portal service at Applications > com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector > Services > DataCollectionHook.
3. ....
Looking in the PDC we can see the par files for PCR but it doesn't appear we have anything for activitydatacollector.
We did our due and searched in notes, sdn etc. and were not finding much to go on so any help is appreciated.
Bryant

I raised a SAP customer message about this and SAP support replied thus:
"If you do not find the file com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector.par.bakin one of the following directories, please deploy the attached .sda
files as explained below.
\usr\sap\<SID>\JCxx\j2ee\cluster\serverX\apps\sap.
com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\root\WEB-INF\deployment\pcd
\usr\sap\<SID>\JCxx\j2ee\cluster\serverX\apps\sap.
com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\root\WEB-INF\deployment\temp
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com.sap.portal.activityreportingframework.sda
com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector.sda
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Info about the log traces in Activity Data Collector

Hi,
I have configured the activity data collector by setting the following properties in ADC and restarted the service
Activate Data Collection :true
Additional File Formats: --(not set anythng left blank)
Base File Name: Portal Activity
Directory Name: portalActivityTraces
File Encoding : UTF-8
Hour in the day to close all files, in GMT : 0
Main File Format : %Orfo.t(dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss,GMT+5.5)%%Stab%%Orfo.ct%%Stab%%Orfo.in%%Stab%%Orfo.un%%Stab%%Orfo.bt%%Stab%%Orfo.pu%%Stab%%Orfo.rh(referer)%%Snl%
Max Buffer size :500KB
Max File Size : 10240 KB
The files are created in the folder called "Portal Activity Traces" But the issue is with the name of the log files getting created
Since i have not set any additional file formats, The log files consist of main file formats
the file names are like this
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wat does the time stamp "1254305061537" refer? Plz explain
some files are of type text document and some are of type "open" wat does tis mean?
If i set t "Hour in the day to close all files"
to 0 wen does it write the log files? Is it at 12? after that will it create a new file?
n in the main file format i have set the time to GMT5.5 (since IST is GMT5.5) but im not getting the proper time format
Plz help me out
Thanks in Advance
Regards,
Sowmya
Edited by: Sowmya B on Sep 30, 2009 1:43 PM

Hi Prasanna,
Thanks for the reply.
Actually there are about 3 to 4 files which are of type .open and they have created long back.Are those files still getting populated.If we set the "hour to close all files" to 0 it should close the open files and create the new(fresh) files for the next day right?
According to the documentation in help portal, "Files may be closed before reaching this limit(Max File Size), as all files are closed at the hour specified in the Hour in the day to close all files property."
Then how come some old files are still getting populated?
Midnight means wat time in particular? Plz explain
About timestamp is it the time the file was created in some format?
If anyone knows plz explain the format of timestamp
Edited by: Sowmya B on Sep 30, 2009 2:13 PM

Regarding Activity Data Collector Report..

Hi All,
My portal doesnt have Activity data collector report which needs application as "com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector".
Pl tell me where should i find it or do i have to install some patch or package.
thanks
Piiyush

Hi all,
Please see [SAP Note 1178889|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1178889|Link] for information on how to use ADC with NW04 SPS21.
Also see [Release Notes of NW04s SPS14|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/46/e28f3aeb4168dfe10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm], for availability info on NW04s
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Hi all,
I have used Activity Data Collector to get the potal user's activities. All informations are in text file only. I want to create formatted report. How can I achieve this?
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Hemalatha J

Hi Hema,
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Activity Data collector

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To extract portal activity data from the portal into Solution manager.

HI all,
I need to extract the portal activity data from the portal into Solution Manager BI and then later on into the SAP BW in order to generate BEx reports on the portal activity data. I need to know about the configuartions that are needed to be done on the portal side and the solution manager side so as to get the data into SolMan from portal. Waiting for a response.
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I'm trying to configure the Activity Data Collector to run by following this:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/46/e4dd28dc8e72dde10000000a114a6b/content.htm
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