Content Tracker Summary About Content Tracker Components and Functions

Managing Content Tracker 8-3 collected which reduces the size of the output table. The corresponding installation preference variable is SctDoNotPopulateAccessLogColumns. ■ Simplify User Agent: When enabled the default, this function minimizes the information that is stored in the cs_userAgent column of the SctAccessLog table. The corresponding installation preference variable is SctSimplifyUserAgent. ■ Do Not Archive: When enabled the default, this function ensures that the database tables contain the most current data and expired table rows are discarded rather than archived. The corresponding installation preference variable is SctDoNotArchive.

8.2 About Content Tracker Components and Functions

Content Tracker monitors activity on your Content Server instance, and records selected details of those activities. It then generates reports that may help you understand the ways in which your system is being used. This section includes a very brief overview about Content Tracker and Content Tracker Reports functionality. It provides a basic background about these components and is intended to help prepare you for the more detailed information provided in Operational Overview on page 8-7. This section covers the following topics: ■ Content Tracker Summary on page 8-3 ■ Content Tracker Reports Summary on page 8-4 ■ Data Recording Overview on page 8-4 ■ Data Reduction Overview on page 8-5 ■ Data Reporting Overview on page 8-5 ■ Content Tracker Terminology on page 8-5 ■ General Limitations on page 8-6 ■ General Considerations on page 8-7

8.2.1 Content Tracker Summary

Content Tracker monitors your system and records information about various activities. This information is collected from various sources, then merged and written to a set of tables in your Content Server database. You can customize Content Tracker to change or expand the types of information it collects. Note: This optimization function is applicable to all Content Tracker database tables the SctAccessLog table as well as the user metadata tables. By default, only the SctAccessLog table is populated but expired rows are not archived. However, if both the Content Access Only and Do Not Archive functions are disabled, all tables will be populated and their expired data archived. 8-4 Application Administrators Guide for Content Server Content Tracker can monitor activity based on: ■ Content item accesses: Content Tracker gathers information about content item usage. The data is obtained from Web filter log files, the Content Server database, and other external applications such as portals and Web sites. Content item access data includes dates, times, content IDs and current metadata. ■ Content Server services: Content Tracker can track all services that return content, as well as services that handle search requests. However, by default, Content Tracker logs only the services that have content access event types. And, with a simple configuration change, Content Tracker can monitor literally any Content Server service, even custom services. ■ User accesses: Content Tracker can gather information about other non-content access events such as the collection and synthesis of user profile summaries. This data includes user names and user profile information.

8.2.2 Content Tracker Reports Summary