How to use web metering in topsites and lower´s sites?

Portal User asked a question.

March 21, 2019 at 7:00 AM

I´m Pablo from México and I have the next question, somebody knows how to use web metering to get information about somepage.com and somepage.com/book1 I mean not just the top site but also the lower´s ?

Thanks

#SLM #webmetering

Portal User
7 years ago
Hi Pablo. This is unfortunately not so easy with the Web Metering feature. It can only track FQDN, Fully Qualified Domain Names, which is basically just www.somepage.com . This is because the web metering is using the DNS info for recognition, and the subpages and subfolders are not a part of the DNS data. A workaround is to set up a DNS entry to point to that subpage: book1.somepage.com and have everybody using that URL instead of somepage.com/book1 . But that is of course easier said than done. However, the newer feature called Cloud Metering does track subpages and folders. It uses a browser plugin on each computer to track the specifics. You can read more about it in this KB article: KB0019397
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- Gert-Jan Kosterman
  7 years ago
  Hi Martin, I assume you refer to the Web Applications functionality offered in SLM. But I had some issues with this recently which resulted in a KB0019608 article. See ServiceNow . So it looks like you better not use the Web Applications functionality . kind regards, Gert-Jan.
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  - ruud.miermans
    7 years ago
    ok, Gert-Jan i read the artcle, pretty "scaring". tanks
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- Portal User
  7 years ago
  Thanks I al ready read the article I will try by another way
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How to use web metering in topsites and lower´s sites?