User Session Summary

User Session Summary is the page where the user's sessions can be viewed. The page can be accessed by clicking the User Session Summary link under the Audit menu in the navbar.

The default page looks as follows:

User Session Summary

When clicked on Show Filters link the page looks as below and

The page contains the following elements:

User Session Summary

  1. Hide Filters link that will hide the available page filters
  2. Available filter dropdowns
    • From Date — Filter to select the From Date
    • To Date — Field to select the To Date
    • Geolocation — Field to filter the page by entering Geolocation. ex: City, IP Address etc.
    • Username — Filter drop-down to select the username, displays with all the usernames of the application
    • Session Status — Filter drop-down to select the session status of the users', list inlcudes Active, Deleted User Login Attempt, Failed Login Attempt, Idle, Inactive
      User Login Attempt
      , Locked User Login Attempt, Logged out, Terminated, Timed Out, Unlinked User Login Attempt, Unknown User Login Attempt
    • Star Rating — Filter which helps to filter the page by the ratings given by the Guest users.
  3. Reset button to reset the filters to the default values
  4. Filter button to filter the on-screen data based on the selected filter values
  5. A dropdown to change the number of rows displayed in the table
  6. A dynamic search box that will show rows matching the user-entered criteria
  7. Table containing the information of the Active user's user sessions
  8. Action — A dropdown button to perform actions on the users for each user row
  9. A pager to go between pages in case there are more rows than what will fit on the page
  10. Export — Drop-down with CSV and Excel options where the page data can be exported as CSV or excel file
  11. Terminate Inactive Sessions — button that can be used to terminate all the inactive users

The Action dropdown contains a Terminate link for each active user in the table, which will allow the System Admin to terminate the user's session.

User Session Summary

The message displays as follows when the user's session is terminated:

User Session Summary

The row for the currently logged-in user is highlighted and the Action dropdown contains a Logout link, which will terminate his/her own session.

User Session Summary

By default, the page only displays Active user sessions. Session Status can be Active, Idle, Logged Out, Terminated and Timed Out. The System Admin can view non-Active sessions by filtering the values.

Multiple user sessions which are inactive can be terminated by clicking the Terminate Inactive Sessions button. By default, sessions older than 30 minutes will be terminated, though this can be changed in the server's configuration.

The message displays as follows when the inactive user sessions are terminated:

User Session Summary

When no active sessions exist in the database then the following message displays when clicked on Terminate Inactive Sessions button:

User Session Summary

Note

The Inactive user sessions can also be terminated via Cron scheduler that is managed by the VELA's application server.

Mobile View

The mobile view of the User Session Summary page uses a card interface in order to display as much data as possible while still making it viewable on a mobile device.

The page contains the following elements:

User Session Summary mobile view
User Session Summary mobile view

  1. Page title
  2. Menu button
  3. Show Filters link when clicked displays with the available page filters
  4. Dynamic Search field to filter the page
  5. Show Entries drop-down to select the number of entries per page that are needed to display
  6. The currently logged-in user card is highlighted in yellow.
  7. A card that shows session-related information.
  8. Action drop-down to log out or terminate a user's session
  9. Pager to navigate to the previous or next page
  10. Export drop-down with CSV option to export the page data
  11. Terminate Inactive Sessions button

Clicking the Action button will reveal a Terminate option, which will terminate the user's session. This option will be Logout for the currently logged-in user and will log the user out and terminate his/her session.

Action button options

Clicking the Terminate Inactive Sessions button at the bottom of the page will terminate all sessions that are considered "expired" by the system (30 minutes by default).


Updated As Of Version 6.0.0