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Setting System Preferences for Usage Collection


The system preferences for enabling and configuring usage collection are described in Table 7.

Table 7. System Preferences for Usage Collection
System Preference
Default
Description

UsageTracking Enabled

FALSE

Set to TRUE to turn on Usage Collection.

UsageTracking Log Time Period

Hourly

Specify how often a new log file is created.

Allowed values: Hourly, Daily, Weekly, and Monthly.

CAUTION:  Set this according to the usage levels you expect. Monthly may create excessively large log files for a high-usage application.

UsageTracking LogFile Dir

N/A

Specify the directory path for the log files. Make sure that the Siebel Server has read and write access to the directory.

Example: \\fileserver\directory

UsageTracking LogFile Encoding

ASCII

Specify encoding for the log file. This is usually set to ASCII.

Some other allowed values are UNICODE, ARABIC, GREEK, and HEBREW.

UsageTracking LogFile Format

XML

Specify the log file format.

Allowed values: CSV, XML, and W3C

UsageTracking Sess Cache Size

100

Specify the number of session IDs cached. Session IDs (that map to login IDs and IP addresses) are cached so that this data does not have to be looked up for each user action.

Allowed values: 10 to 1000

This task is a step in Process of Usage Collection.

To enable and configure system preferences for Usage Collection

  • Refer to Table 7 and to the section that discusses setting system preferences in Siebel Applications Administration Guide.
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