On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Paul Wittle <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Andrea, in terms of the monitoring plugin, can it log the user being used
> for each request?
>

As far as I know, it should be reported by the remoteUser property:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/monitoring/audit.html#customizing-log-contents


>
> I only wondered as the user session is maintained in the background and
> I'm not sure it is currently included in the outputs.
>

Session creation is controlled at the security subsystem level, normally
session creation for the users is not maintained
to make horizontal clusters easier to setup (otherwise you have to setup
http session sharing among the containers)


>
> I still have not had time to fully review the monitoring plugin but I have
> been using the audit log functionality and I have decided that the files it
> creates are what I'm after. These can be customised using the FreeMarker
> templates and I can then write something my end to summarise the data.
>
> This raises three questions:
>         1)      Can you add the logged in user to the audit role?
>

Read above


>         2)      Could you just have the audit role? (i.e. no other
> monitoring plugin options just audit role files)
>

The template can be made with just one property, yes


>         3)      If you can do point 1, would this help Chris solve his
> issues if he was using a specific user account for QGIS?
>

I don't see how? :-)
I thought he wanted to restrict access, auditing just logs out information
about the requests, after the request is served.

Cheers
Andrea

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