Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics Release Notes
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Document history:
Date
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Description of
change
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Jan 31, 2012
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Rebranded product
to Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics
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June 15, 2011
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Analytics 2.5.1
Release
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June 29, 2009
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Analytics 2.5
Release
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Table of Contents
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Getting Started
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What’s New in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics
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Installation and Upgrade Notes
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Issues Fixed in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics
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Issues Fixed in Analytics 2.5
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Known Issues in Analytics 2.5
Getting
Started
At time of initial release, Analytics 2.5 integrates with
Content Server 7.0.3 patch 4+ and Content Server 7.5 patch 1+ (requires HotFix 9)
The
Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics document set
provides documentation for different kinds of users. Updates to product
documentation, as they are made, are posted to the Oracle Support
site. For a description of the documents, please refer to the
Documentation Notes link on the site. Check the site regularly for the latest
set.
What's New in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics
Distribution
Changes in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics
Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics no longer includes Swiff Chart
Generator. To use this product, download and install Swiff
Chart Generator and then make the following changes:
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Add
the install path of Swiff Chart Generator to the
server CLASSPATH
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Specify
the install path of the SwiffChart Generator as
follows in global.xml file found in the Analytics webapp:
<param name="swchart_instdir" type="string" value="InstallPath of Swiff
Chart"/>
Performance
Improvements
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Significant
improvements to the performance and scalability of Analytics
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Data
processing is now handled by Hadoop instead of
through Oracle Database procedures
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Monitoring
and troubleshooting Analytics jobs through the Admin UI
Reporting
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A
new Asset Audit Trail report has been added to track CS asset changes (create,
edit, delete)
Maintenance
Improvements
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Added
Archive support for raw data
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Added
functionality to support purge for processed data
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New
installation and configuration procedures via silent install
Features
No Longer Supported
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Real
Time Data Capture report is no longer supported
Installation
and Upgrade Notes
Please
refer to installation and upgrade guides available for download from Oracle
Support
Issues Fixed in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Analytics
Hadoop Jobs
(#25602)
Scheduler will now pick up changes to Sites or additions/deletions of Sites
without requiring restart
Sensor
(#25633)
Tighten Analytics security by validating objname, objid, referer, and imagereferer query parameters for potential scripting. objID is specifically checked to
ensure it is a numeric value.
(#26830)
Added handling for more encoded characters. Gracefully skipped any runtime
exceptions while de-serializing the bean
Analytics
- Agent
(#26938)
Expanded browser versions reported by the Agent
Issues Fixed in Analytics 2.5
Analytics
Reports
(#18710)
Analytics and stored Cross Site Scripting security
vulnerability
If XSS is passed as part of a parameter value
in an Analytics URL; the viewed report should display this as data, but,
actually executes the XSS. This fix encodes the value before displaying
it in the report.
(#18796)
Site Information Report displays average page duration as 0 seconds
(#18982)
Performance Indicator does not work when configured from the Site Information
Report if the site name contains Æ, Ø or Å characters
Known Issues in Analytics 2.5
The
known issues in Analytics
2.5 are described in this section. They are sorted by feature set.
Analytics
Admin
(#20202)
Refreshing by use of F5 key will cause the filter to be reset in the Running
Tasks list
(#20539)
Sorting the Task History list by End Date causes the total pages to display as NaN
Analytics
Reports
(#18928)
Analytics does not filter reports based on site
(#18978)
Sessions Report - If there is a blank value for the average session duration,
this will appear as 'NAME?' when extracted to a .csv
(#18999)
Names will overlap if the value is less than 1 when charts are exported to .pdf
(#19908)
Segment chart shows the tooltip value as the value of the No segment
(#20408)
Entry Page data does not appear in the Entry/Exit Page report when exported to
.csv
(#20410)
If a filter is applied when viewing the Host Name report, the filter will be
retained when moving to the IP Addresses report
(#20412)
Timeperiod and Display mode are not included when
exporting reports to .xml or .csv formats.
(#20413)
When Operating Systems report is exported to .csv,
the details column is not available
(#20538)
Filter by referrer displays blank results if you enter an IP in the filter
field
(#20608)
Unable to filter the Referrer Report when URL contains a
capitalized letter.
To
workaround this, use a wildcard placed in the URL name prior to the first
instance of the capital letter. For example, use http://www.first*
to filter http://www.firstSite.com
Hadoop Jobs
(#18811)
Analytics Hadoop Jobs Application will not recover
from a loss of database connection, the application must be restarted,
data will be processed after the restart.
(#19714)
Currently it is possible to start multiple instances of the scheduler. This
will result in the jobs getting scheduled more frequently than you have
configured. Users should ensure that the scheduler is not running before
starting.
(#19808)
Scheduler will throw an exception if HDFS is in Safe Mode
(#19968)
Simultaneous execution of multiple VisitorMerger jobs
is not supported
(#20631)
Purge jobs also purge unprocessed data.
Purge
jobs should be enabled along with the archive feature to avoid loss of data.
(#20641)
Files must be manually merged when archive is set to true and AppServer is restarted.
Shutting
down the AppServer when archive is set to true causes
the session file to rotate and be renamed to data.txt.done.
When
the AppServer restarts, a new session data.txt will be
created in the same folder. When the archive is scheduled to begin, this file can't be archived because the data.txt.done file already exists. Merge these two files to
continue.
HDFS
Agent
(#20403)
When starting HDFSAgent, an exception is seen in the
log "com.fatwire.analytics.config.exception.ConfigurationException:
Starting time for this module has not been configured properly" when
archive enabled is set to false
Sensor
(#19910)
When restarting the sensor from the IBM WebSphere
application server console, a new sensor is listed in the Analytics Admin UI
with the same name. To resolve this issue, a restart of the AppServer
is required.
(#19836)
In 2.1 the first object impression of a session which had a session based
parameter set was taken as the source of the value. In 2.5 we use the first
object impression which is a Page View as the basis for the session based
values. This prevents the new visitor flag to be set correctly if there are non-Page View object impressions before the first page
impression.