Format of the Notes client session journal file

A Notes® client session journal file records information about each IBM® Notes client login session within the service.

File name

The name of the compressed file that you download is <date>.NOTES_NRPC_SESSION.txt.gz, where <date> is the file creation date, in YYYY-MM-DD format. For example: 2012-12-23.NOTES_NRPC_SESSION.txt.gz.

Syntax

Each record in a Notes client session journal file conforms to the following syntax:

date user name (id=customerId, customerId=customerId) performed ACTION 
[on object (type=TYPE, id=OBJECTID, name=name, customerId=customerId)] 
[targeted at (type=TYPE, id=TARGETID, name=name, customerId=customerId)] 
with outcome OUTCOME [REASON][(EXTRA)]

Each record in a journal file is contained in a single line.

Parameters

date

The date and time a Notes client user logs out, for example, 2012-12-18T13:23:47+0000.

name

The user’s Notes name, for example, CN=Samantha Daryn/O=Renovations

customerId

The unique number that identifies the company subscription in the service.

ACTION

NRPC_SESSION

TYPE

The type of object or target. The object type is always NRPC_SESSION. The target type is always USER.

OBJECTID

A unique session ID

name

The name of the OBJECTID or the TARGETID. The name for the OBJECTID is always NRPC_SESSION. The name for the TARGETID is the user’s Notes name, for example, CN=Samantha Daryn/O=Renovations.

TARGETID

The unique identifier for the user. This value is always null because the name parameter uniquely identifies the user.

OUTCOME

The result of the action, which is always SUCCESS.

EXTRA
The following information is provided:
  • Number of databases accessed
  • Number of documents that are read and written
  • Length of time connected to the service, in seconds
  • The client versions being used

Examples

Note: The following example record is shown on multiple lines. In the journal file, each record is a single line.

  1. Notes client session for Samantha Daryn.

    2013-04-09T14:35:12+0000 user CN=Samantha Daryn/O=Renovations(id=20076547, 
customerId=20076547) performed NRPC_SESSION on object (type=NRPC_SESSION, 
id=02E31600, name="NRPC_SESSION", customerId=20076547) targeted at (type=USER, 
id=, name="CN=Samantha Daryn/O=Renovations", customerId=20076547) with outcome 
SUCCESS (DBs accessed="1", docs read="0", docs written="0", connect time="302", 
client version="90010",)