The following sections cover the prerequisites that should be completed in order to publish information relating to the processing carried out by WSO2 Identity Server in the Analytics Dashboard of WSO2 Analytics - IS.
Downloading WSO2 Analytics - Identity Server
Follow the instructions below to download the binary distribution of WSO2 Analytics - IS.
The binary distribution contains the binary files for both MS Windows, and Linux-based operating systems. You can also download, and build the source code.
- Go to the WSO2 IS product page.
- To download Analytics - IS, click Analytics.
For detailed information about the supporting applications you need to install, see Installation Prerequisites.
Running WSO2 Analytics - Identity Server
Once WSO2 Analytics - IS is downloaded, you can start its server and access its Management Console. For detailed instructions to run a WSO2 product, see Running the Product.
Running WSO2 Identity Server
The WSO2 IS server should run simultaneously with the WSO2 Analytics - IS server. For detailed instructions to run a WSO2 product, see Running the Product.
Open the Management Consoles of the two WSO2 products in two separate browsers to avoid signing off from one Management Console when you sign into the other.
Enabling analytics for Identity Server
To enable publishing statistics for WSO2 Identity Server in WSO2 Analytics - IS, the following listeners should be enabled in the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf/identity/Identity.xml file.
| Listener | org.wso2.carbon.identity.data.publisher.application.authentication.AuthnDataPublishHandlerManager |
|---|---|
| Purpose | This is the common event listener for all the types of Analytics supported for WSO2 IS. This listener captures all the statistics sent to WSO2 IS Analytics as events, and redirects them to the relevant listener based on their type. Therefore, this listener is required to enable both session analytics and login analytics. |
| Configuration | <EventListener type="org.wso2.carbon.identity.core.handler.AbstractIdentityMessageHandler" name="org.wso2.carbon.identity.data.publisher.application.authentication.AuthnDataPublishHandlerManager" orderId="11" enable="true"/> |
| Listener | org.wso2.carbon.identity.data.publisher.application.authentication.impl.DASLoginDataPublisherImpl |
|---|---|
| Purpose | This listener should be enabled if you want to analyze statistics relating to logins attempted via WSO2 IS. For more information about this type of analytics, see Analyzing Statistics for Resident Identity Provider. |
| Configuration | <EventListener type="org.wso2.carbon.identity.core.handler.AbstractIdentityMessageHandler" name="org.wso2.carbon.identity.data.publisher.application.authentication.impl.DASLoginDataPublisherImpl" orderId="10" enable="true"/> |
| Listener | org.wso2.carbon.identity.data.publisher.application.authentication.AuthnDataPublishHandlerManager |
|---|---|
| Purpose | This listener should be enabled if you want to analyze statistics for specific sessions in WSO2 IS Analytics. A session is a time duration between a successful login and and the subsequent log out by a specific user. For more informations about this type of Analytics, see Analyzing Statistics for Sessions. |
| Configuration | <EventListener type="org.wso2.carbon.identity.core.handler.AbstractIdentityMessageHandler" name="org.wso2.carbon.identity.data.publisher.application.authentication.impl.DASSessionDataPublisherImpl" orderId="11" enable="true"/> |
Configuring event publishers
The required configuration details described below are available by default. Follow this section to understand the Analytics related configurations used in the process and do any modifications if required.
Configuring event publishers involve providing the information required by WSO2 IS to publish login and/or session data to the Analytics - IS server in order to analyze the data using the Analytics Dashboard. This configuration is the same for login analytics and session analytics. The differences are as follows.
- The configuration required for login analytics is located in the
<IS_HOME>/repository/deployment/server/eventpublishers/IsAnalytics-Publisher-wso2event-AuthenticationData.xmlfile. The configuration required for session analytics is located in the<IS_HOME>/repository/deployment/server/eventpublishers/IsAnalytics-Publisher-wso2event-SessionData.xmlfile. The event streams used for login analytics and session analytics are different because the format in which the events are captured for the two types of analytics are different. For detailed information about event streams, see Understanding Event Streams and Event Tables.
The event streams specified for publishers should not be modified because that would cause errors in the existing default configuration.
The common properties that can be configured for event publishers in the files mentioned above are as follows.
Adapter Property | Description | Configuration file property | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receiver URL | The URL of the target receiver to which IS related information is sent as events. The format of the URL is as follows.
The default port offsets done for WSO2 Analytics - IS server should be taken into consideration when specifying the thrift port. e.g., If the WSO2 Analytics - IS server was started with a port offset of 1, the thrift port should be | receiverURL |
|
| Authenticator URL | The URL of the authenticator. The format of the authenticator URL is as follows.
The default port offsets done for WSO2 IS should be taken into consideration when specifying the SSL port. e.g., If the WSO2 IS server was started with a port offset of 1, the SSL port should be This parameter is not included in the | authenticatorURL |
|
| User Name | The username of the listener. | username | wso2event-user |
| Password | A password for the listener. | password | wso2event-password |
| Protocol | The communication protocol that is used to publish events. | protocol | thrift/binary |
| Publishing Mode | The events publishing mode. Non-blocking refers to asynchronous publishing, and blocking refers to synchronous publishing. | publishingMode | non-blocking/blocking |
| Publishing Timeout | A positive integer to denote the timeout for the non-blocking publishing mode. | publishTimeout | 0 |
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