Question about log file analysis

Webtrends 7.0D/IIS W3C/ASP.net pages

[crashomon]

Hi everyone, I'm the new guy at my company and I've inherited a website developed on ASP.net (c#) and while most data is showing up fine in my webtrends reports, I'm not done configuring the profiles.

My question (actually two) are these:
1. in the logfiles are strings that begin with:
ASPSESSIONID and are followed with a long string of binarycode (gibberish, if you wil). Are these cookies, or are these sessionIDs? (they show up in what should be the 'cookie' field according to micosoft's IIS W3C definitions)
2. How can I setup Webtrends to 'track' whatever these values are?

TIA,

Patrick

[larryn]

Patrick,

ASPSESSIONID#*$!#*$!x is in fact the session ID. The gibberish (which should be a bunch of letters) is a unique add-on because IIS can support multiple threads/hosts and it allows IIS to keep things straight.

As for webtrends, I don't use it, so I've no idea.

Good Luck,

Larry

[cgrantski]

Consider a Session ID to be a temporary cookie, one that expires at the end of the session.

WebTrends has a setting called "Session Tracking" where you identify the cookie to pay attention to. It's in the Options section of setup.

[crashomon]

cgrantski, thanks for the explanation. I'll go in and make those changes (as soon as my PC is done with its 7 hours worth of analysis crunching...)

Also, thanks for the earlier posting about addting FIREFOX Browser to the config settings. works like a champ!

Patrick