Viewing the Web Session Browser

About this task

Use the Web Session Browser to find information about HTTP sessions. Search a server, a group, or all servers and groups for a specific session. After activating the search, the system takes a snapshot of the servers and returns a list of sessions. Using a wildcard (*) indicates that all data is searched. Blank fields are disallowed in the search. The data collector must be at an L2 or higher monitoring level to provide the data for this display page.

To view the Web Session Browser:

Procedure

  1. From the top navigation, click Problem Determination > Web Session Browser.
    The Web Session Browser page opens.
  2. Select a group and server and enter the user name that you want to search for.
    The Web Session Browser page opens showing the sessions that match your search criteria. After the system returns your search results, you can review the attributes of a session by clicking the View link in the Attributes field.

    Many different kinds of Java™ objects, including customized objects, can be in a session; sometimes in the form of binary data. ITCAM cannot display this data on the front end in a useful way. In order to display the data correctly, define the toString() method. ITCAM calls this method and displays the data returned in the Web Session Browser. If the toString() method is not defined, ITCAM publishes the content of the Java objects as-is, which might not contain useful data.