Re: Measuring Online activity per user?

: "John H. Frantz" <frantz@centrum.is> writes: : A client needs to somehow measure or estimate online activity by : individual user. This company serves a group of other companies with a : centralized database and needs to charge them based on their activity. : : They are using Online 7.11 which, like all Online versions from 6.0 : onward, consists of processes that are independent of user processes. : Therefore, measuring user process activity (using some unix tools) does : not account for Online activity, which is about 90% of the total cpu : usage. : : So how can we break down Online acitivity per user? Has anyone attacked : this problem yet (or is the centralized server model so outdated)? : : Possible measurement units can be: : : - CPU seconds, though I doubt this will be possible. And for us hardly interesting. : - I/O counts. Online keeps track of this kind of information while : a user is connected, but loses it when a user disconnects. This may be interesting. : If no one has dealt with this before, is there anyone that would be : interested in a solution (which I may have to produce)? Yes, we are interested. We plan to do this by counting update/insert (we hardly ever do any deletes) activity stored by the application. These are very usefull for other auditing purposes as well, so we intend to keep track of them in any case. OnLine also have an auditing facility that we might look into. We expect our own data to be easier to handle though. Should you do anything in this area please let us know. Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM-data, Aasesvei 71, 1300 Sandvika, Norway My opinions are those of my company