Hi all,

We have two citrix servers dedicated for FM work where clients' developers can login and access their models.
Security is setup so different clients can login to the same machines but they can only see their models.
What would be the best way to figure out how often they login to access FM?
There's FM log but not sure if it is easy to get any info from there.
Is there other way to get details on who logged on when?

Thanks for any idea.

If auditing is active you can check for specific entries in COGIPF_ACTION to see who was using FM.

I had a similar question and analyzed the audit-db entries during using FM. Here what is working for me to see that a model was published or metadata was queried:

Hi all,

We have two citrix servers dedicated for FM work where clients' developers can login and access their models.
Security is setup so different clients can login to the same machines but they can only see their models.
What would be the best way to figure out how often they login to access FM?
There's FM log but not sure if it is easy to get any info from there.
Is there other way to get details on who logged on when?

Thanks for any idea.

Hi Michael, this box doesn't have audit db.
In fact, it doesn't have any Cognos services except the FM.

That's why it's challenging to figure out the FM usage.

If auditing is active you can check for specific entries in COGIPF_ACTION to see who was using FM.

I had a similar question and analyzed the audit-db entries during using FM. Here what is working for me to see that a model was published or metadata was queried:

Hi all,

We have two citrix servers dedicated for FM work where clients' developers can login and access their models.
Security is setup so different clients can login to the same machines but they can only see their models.
What would be the best way to figure out how often they login to access FM?
There's FM log but not sure if it is easy to get any info from there.
Is there other way to get details on who logged on when?

Thanks for any idea.

Hello Suraj,

We have a similar setup and use Citrix Director for that specific purpose. With Citrix Director we are able to produce a trend overview of all people that logged on to Citrix and used FM when and for how long. But you cannot see what they did. For that you would indeed need to look into the content of the Cognos Audit table COGIPF_ACTION.

With regards

Han Frieling

Hi Michael, this box doesn't have audit db.
In fact, it doesn't have any Cognos services except the FM.

That's why it's challenging to figure out the FM usage.

If auditing is active you can check for specific entries in COGIPF_ACTION to see who was using FM.

I had a similar question and analyzed the audit-db entries during using FM. Here what is working for me to see that a model was published or metadata was queried:

Hi all,

We have two citrix servers dedicated for FM work where clients' developers can login and access their models.
Security is setup so different clients can login to the same machines but they can only see their models.
What would be the best way to figure out how often they login to access FM?
There's FM log but not sure if it is easy to get any info from there.
Is there other way to get details on who logged on when?

Thanks for any idea.

Hi Han, I got the Citrix usage details.
As for the audit, that's only for activity like package published or update right?

Hello Suraj,

We have a similar setup and use Citrix Director for that specific purpose. With Citrix Director we are able to produce a trend overview of all people that logged on to Citrix and used FM when and for how long. But you cannot see what they did. For that you would indeed need to look into the content of the Cognos Audit table COGIPF_ACTION.

With regards

Han Frieling

Hi Michael, this box doesn't have audit db.
In fact, it doesn't have any Cognos services except the FM.

That's why it's challenging to figure out the FM usage.

If auditing is active you can check for specific entries in COGIPF_ACTION to see who was using FM.

I had a similar question and analyzed the audit-db entries during using FM. Here what is working for me to see that a model was published or metadata was queried:

Hi all,

We have two citrix servers dedicated for FM work where clients' developers can login and access their models.
Security is setup so different clients can login to the same machines but they can only see their models.
What would be the best way to figure out how often they login to access FM?
There's FM log but not sure if it is easy to get any info from there.
Is there other way to get details on who logged on when?

Thanks for any idea.