Exploring analytics into websphere portal

 Analytics :- The word analytics means collecting the usage data of user or application and analyzing the data and coming up with metrics and represent them as graphical information.

Portal provides two types of analytics :-  Server side analytics and active site analytics

Server side analytics :-
We can enable server side analytics in portal it makes portal log data related to portal application use. Portal has a logging framework to log all portal related data. Business related data can be logged and latter these logs will be taken for analysis. SiteAnalyzerLogger determines what type of need to be logged in portal. All possible data that can be logged are given below.

• Page management, such as creating, reading, updating, deleting pages.
• Requests of pages by users.
• Requests of portlets by users.
• Session activities, such as login, logout, time out, login failed.
• User management actions, such as creating, reading, updating, and deleting users and groups.

Step 1 :-  We need to enable logging based upon your requirement and above available possible logging cases.{. Location of log file logs/$APPSERVER_NAME/sa.log.}

Table 1. Description and activity logged for each available logger

WebSphere® Portal Express® Server Analysis Logger	Description and Activity Logged
SiteAnalyzerSessionLogger.isLogging	HTTP requests that include the URLs:/Command/Login/Command/Logout
SiteAnalyzerUserManagementLogger.isLogging	HTTP requests that include the URLs:/Command/UserManagement/CreateUser/Command/UserManagement /DeleteUser/Command/UserManagement/CreateGroup/Command /UserManagement/DeleteGroup
SiteAnalyzerPageLogger.isLogging	HTTP requests that include the  URLs:/Page/*/Command/Customizer/CreatePage /Command/Customizer/EditPage/Command/Customizer/DeletePage
SiteAnalyzerPortletLogger.isLogging	HTTP requests that include the URLs:/Portlet/*
SiteAnalyzerPortletActionLogger.isLogging	HTTP requests that include the URLs:/PortletAction/*
SiteAnalyzerErrorLogger.isLogging	HTTP requests that include the URLs:/Error/Portlet/Error/PageThe referrer field points to a portlet name or a page name. Examples of such referrer fields are:http://your.server.name/Portlet/1/PortletNamehttp://your.server.name/Page/1/PageName
SiteAnalyzerApplicationActionLogger.isLogging	HTTP requests that include the URLs:/ApplicationAction/*
SiteAnalyzerJSRPortletLogger.isLogging	web content viewer

Step2 :- Change the value of SiteAnalyzerPageLogger.isLogging to true for logging all page management related data. Save value and restart portal server.

Step 3 :-  Now try creating a new page or delete an existing page and then open file in this location [wp_profile_root]]/logs/app_server_name/sa_date_time.log] and start reading it.

Sample log  and its explanation:- 

9.37.3.88 - customer2  [10/Apr/2002:21:33:16 +0000]

"GET /Portlet/146/Welcome_Portlet?PortletPID=146&PortletMode=View&PortletState=Normal

HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 "http://myserver.company.com/Page/110/Welcome"

"Firefox/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)"

"JSESSIONID=OXDFAPVR4SXYZOIHSLVGA2Y"

ipaddress  - customerId timestamp
clientHttpMethod   urlRequested
protocol (success/error)codes baseContextUrl
browserDetails
Cookies

More samples :- 
127.0.0.1 - wpsadmin [02/Nov/2014:00:15:01 +0530] "POST /Page/Z6_CGAH47L00GP790IDB90MNI00N4/Page_Properties HTTP/1.1" 200 154 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0" "modified.id=Sun Nov 02 2014 00:14:58 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time);LtpaToken2=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;JSESSIONID=00002sw7J2Je1qSr_JEvR89pqCN:-1"

127.0.0.1 - wpsadmin [02/Nov/2014:00:15:01 +0530] "POST /Command/Customizer/EditPage?Page=Z6_50MA1O41J001F0AIM9CUQ83006&PageName=CheckAnalyticsLogging HTTP/1.1" 200 154 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0" "modified.id=Sun Nov 02 2014 00:14:58 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time);LtpaToken2=lX8zLoJSLmAp12b5caHgCDP8+0Ib++14knprbsHKDu8ws9gNVcvnZUoX3L6TqTko9MxwSldncT9MEn6wPrR0e5Xdo9f/LNDgazguTvG3CfjZOzlaobLKNJzpMUcMTSbJQhPU03ZVPbPZDCebd3LHuAMnoFb8K8SwnGQt89Mpms+tiNbEsFEipNt78CWq/YTgBTye0ri+dS/I0bWm4e+XVuSLSt8uF7lsn9x30KP3h4Ar2tR4pLkIveHFtquKHcJ7xWj+KVhjnLfATXPhSV6TK/t18vfNOwHlS5NpCAe+gv+nu7pNLszCFJWHx4FpzR+yHRdd5epJz8z/W0OyNmtMnyvYl3f6Fyw8Zp/Tka96/4PG73sQslBovHzw59fogCASJsOGjZv8O3P1va2JTioWonKqwNwHD2At0fZmBuvqReiGSPle2G8Nc33IuhmBSYH/4f6Ef/2XU2cRjfmFWAQnIRXNyPiAEdXyk81gLZE97J+amfb00/ScJoM8NtQSsNlxXqgIVs6fLpE0p/a1d9HopDjJfQ/CIpjEQPflxgyIZ13A6+vM8+OAIuU3ViPImdJGTeEZl6DwKLXos7s7q/anHTV/c/a991IJsibLX3D/mk2U4/XY8j1F+EULycz2ElOdXq22QqshRBG8DDeiHu7KSqRkPhAaxncZOQglAibdRPO/MIkZZfRIjwedlSTF2tO8GyWvIeogM6zGM+KWDJ44lg==;JSESSIONID=00002sw7J2Je1qSr_JEvR89pqCN:-1"