Setting Up Portal Server User Behavior Tracking

This section has information on how to enable user behavior tracking and generate reports.

You can perform the following tasks from the portal server management console:

• To Enable the User Behavior Tracking Logging

• To Generate User Behavior Tracking Reports

To Enable the User Behavior Tracking Logging

By default, UBT logging on a Portal Server application is not enabled.

1. Log in to the Portal Server management console.

2. Select the Common Tasks tab.

3. Under Reports and Logs, click Portal Usage Reports to launch the wizard.

4. From Select Portal drop-down menu select a portal instance, and click OK.

   The User Behavior Tracking page is displayed.

5. Click the Settings submenu and enable UBT logging under Common Properties.

   For more information on Common Properties, Handler Properties and Event Settings, see Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Reference

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   For all other properties, default values are already set and are sufficient for UBT to work. To apply the changes to all instances of Portal Server, click the Apply to All Instances button. Otherwise, click the Apply to Selected Instance button.

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6. Access the portal Desktop and make sure user behavior tracking log files are generated.

   By default, user behavior tracking logs are written into /PortalData-Dir/portals/PortalID/logs/instanceID/ubt.0.0.log file.

To Generate User Behavior Tracking Reports

1. Log in to the Portal Server management console.

2. Select the Common Tasks tab.

3. Under Reports and Logs, click Portal Usage Reports to launch the wizard.

4. From Select Portal drop-down menu select a portal instance, and click OK.

   The User Behavior Tracking page is displayed.

5. Click the Reports submenu.

   Eight reports are listed. All these reports can be generated either in PDF or HTML format. See Table 6–1 for more information.

Equivalent psadmin Command

psadmin generate-ubt-report