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User access details in Alfresco

santoshpydisett — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:15:36 GMT

Hi All, Is there any way in Alfresco we can pull below details for reporting Number of uploads / downloads (Check ins / check outs) by user within the last 3 months. Number of Alfresco sessions within the last 3 months of Particular User. Thanks Santosh

Re: User access details in Alfresco

afaust — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:58:40 GMT

Unless you have already activated auditing and set up an audit application configuration, this kind of information will not be available for extraction. Using the default alfresco-access audit application, you would be able to log check-out / check-in. Downloads are notoriously hard to track (and in fact are not recorded by any default audit application), since you cannot technically differentiate a proper download from a simple HEAD check or a transformation to a different format - at least not on the layer that the default audit applications operate.

Password-based logins are tracked by the default alfresco-access audit application, but single sign-on logins are not. Since a customer of mine required to know which users where active in the last X months (to manage user licenses), I developed an active user auditing feature in an open-source module of mine.

Re: User access details in Alfresco

santoshpydisett — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:30:42 GMT

Thanks for your info Axel.

I will explore your Active user auditing feature.

Re: User access details in Alfresco

mehe — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:57:09 GMT

You can identify up/downloads by fiddling around with the access logs of tomcat (GET...node/content...) or, if you have one, your httpd reverse proxy...

There are some tools outside for web server statistics, but this would afford time and effort and is not at application layer...