Active User Tracking

The Active Users window displays a list of currently and recently active users accessing the server.  The "Active Users" list to the left of the window shows the account name of any user that has been logged into your Rumpus server in the past hour.  User account names may be listed more than once, of course, when a user account is used by multiple visitor or by the same person for multiple sessions.

Active user information is obtained by periodically polling the Rumpus server daemon.  The overhead involved in refreshing the user information is low, but the interval is selectable, allowing you to minimize the number of server hits needed to maintain the display.  When you are actively monitoring user access, set the "Refresh Every" pop-up menu to 1 or 5 seconds, increasing the frequency of the updates.  For more casual monitoring, reduce the load on the server by setting the "Refresh Every" pop-up to 1 minute.

When you select a user account name in the "Active Users" list, the "User Statistics" and "Transcript" areas will display information about the selected session.  User sessions can be terminated and removed from the list by clicking the "Disconnect User" button.

User Statistics

All currently logged in users are shown in the list at the left side of the "Active Users" box.  Selecting a user name in this list will populate the user detail information, described below:

User Name

This is the name of the registered or anonymous user, where the name anonymous will appear with every connection of an anonymous user.

Connection Type

This field lets you know if the user is logged in via the Web File Manager or FTP.

IP Address

The TCP/IP address of the remote client computer.

Current Folder

This field displays the location of a user, where "/" indicates the Server Root folder or the user's top-level user folder.

Last Action

Rumpus identifies the last command sent by the user's FTP client to Rumpus.

Session Start

Displays the time at which the session began.

Bytes Transferred

Rumpus reports the total number of data that the selected user has uploaded and downloaded to the server.

Transcript

The complete user session transcript for the selected user session is displayed in this box.  For FTP sessions, the transcript shows the FTP commands issued by the client, along with the server's responses, just as a session transcript would appear in the user's FTP client.  WFM session transcripts include a listing of each request made by the client, including the action taken ("File", "Dir List", "Upload", "Download", etc.) and the file or folder involved.