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  • Lucas_Thompson_'s avatar
    Lucas_Thompson_
    Historic F5 Account

    From your post, it sounds like you'd like to generate a report about incoming APM session:

     

    • Login timestamp
    • Logout timestamp
    • Calculate login/logout to get a session duration
    • Username

    The APM logs contain sufficient information to generate such a report. The report log lines have the session ID number as a key, so you have to basically create a map of all session IDs and Check /var/log/apm for the correct lines with timestamp for session start, end, and username. Check the log file when you create a login and logout, they're straightforward. APM also has a report function to perform this task, but the amount of data stored is rather small because the disk on BIG-IP itself is used, and the size is limited. We recommend using syslog to send the logs to another device.

     

  • Dear Lucas,

     

    Thanks for your response, am not looking for incoming APM session report, i need the sessions start and end time for the client traffic accessing servers behind F5,

     

    Eg: - Each time when a client access Servers behind F5 need the sessions Start and end time for the same.

     

    Appreciate your support on this.

     

    Regards, Midhun P.K

     

  • Dear Lucas,

     

    Thanks for your response, am not looking for incoming APM session report, i need the sessions start and end time for the client traffic accessing servers behind F5,

     

    Eg: - Each time when a client access Servers behind F5 need the sessions Start and end time for the same.

     

    Appreciate your support on this.

     

    Regards, Midhun P.K

     

  • Dear Lucas,

     

    Thanks for your response, am not looking for incoming APM session report, i need the sessions start and end time for the client traffic accessing servers behind F5,

     

    Eg: - Each time when a client access Servers behind F5 need the sessions Start and end time for the same.

     

    Appreciate your support on this.

     

    Regards, Midhun P.K

     

  • Lucas_Thompson_'s avatar
    Lucas_Thompson_
    Historic F5 Account

    Saying "session", what do you mean exactly?

     

    The communication from the users will usually be HTTP. It doesn't really have a session that you can get an "end time" from.

     

    You can certainly log the beginning time for all communication using the ACCESS_ACL_ALLOWED event.

     

  • Lucas_Thompson_'s avatar
    Lucas_Thompson_
    Historic F5 Account

    Saying "session", what do you mean exactly?

     

    The communication from the users will usually be HTTP. It doesn't really have a session that you can get an "end time" from.

     

    You can certainly log the beginning time for all communication using the ACCESS_ACL_ALLOWED event.