Application Analyzer 2006 usage report

re: Application Analyzer 2006 usage report

Ben Langhinrichs — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:57:54 GMT

Very interesting, and it helps explain some of the odd dates. I have two thoughts on this technique.

The first is that the Maintain LastAccessed property is very seldom used unless there is a compelling reason. The Notes Help goes so far as to say: "If you set the database to delete documents based on intervals without activity, such as 10 days without being read or modified, select "Maintain Last Accessed property" and be aware this may negatively impact database performance. Otherwise, leave the option deselected for best performance." So, it is unlikely to be very effective to use this measurement alone.

The second thought is that tracking modifications alone is sometimes misleading. A company policy manual may be updated once a year, and accessed hundreds of times a day.

So what is the best way to track usage? I am not sure, but I'll put a bit of thought into it.

re: Application Analyzer 2006 usage report

RobWills — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:11:44 GMT

"We plan to address the fact that not all Notes Databases have the Maintain LastAccessed property turned on – we will modify reports to take this into consideration in one of the next updates to AA06."
Couldn't that be addressed more succinctly by saying "This bug will be fixed in one of the next updates to AA06."?

You are kidding, right ?

billbuchan — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:54:56 GMT

50 man years experience in Notes in your team, and your using *this* ?

No wonder your usage stats done work. NO-one is insane enough to turn this on across an entire environment.

So your telling your punters - "Hey, we want to create huge amounts of extra work on your servers, and make you wait 90 days whilst that data accumulates before running the application tool ? "

There are far more reliable, useful, accurate, and quick ways of getting usage.

And I'll tell you how for a million bucks.

Honestly. (slaps head, sighs)

---* Bill
http://www.billbuchan.com

re: Application Analyzer 2006 usage report

NBlogger — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:00:42 GMT

We definitely don't want a perf impact to any databases by turning on the Maintain Last accessed property. We will have have a better way to track usage in an updated AppAnalzyer release. We have several ideas on how best to track this, but are interested in hearing your recommendations. Thanks.
- Ed

My recommendations

billbuchan — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:54:23 GMT

Hire an experienced Domino developer ?

Come on folks. This is a no-brainer..

---* Bill

re: Application Analyzer 2006 usage report

modchaos — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:53:10 GMT

Bill, they have been at Microsoft for so long they forgot how to do the simple things.

Look Collab guys, this is truly a no-brainer. There are very SIMPLE ways to do this without the maintain last access property on. And since you are using COM, you have to think on a smaller scale. But of course this will require you to have access to the database which you may or may not have, even as an administrator depending on the ACL to the database. There are way to get around that too... but, you can find out.

Bill - agreed, some experienced Domino developers and maybe an administrator or two on your team might be helpful.