{"id":2259,"date":"2016-09-28T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2259"},"modified":"2019-08-29T20:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:54:59","slug":"viewing-connected-users","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/viewing-connected-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing Connected Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common task for every <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SNIP<\/span><\/strong> operator is to check on <em>who<\/em> may be using your machine.<\/p>\n<p>This information is provided in two ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A simple report you can access from a button on the <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/the-caster-and-clients-tab\/\">Clients and Caster<\/a> tab.\u00a0 This <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/managing-user-accounts\/\">article<\/a> describes the general topic area of managing your users.<br \/>\nThese reports are sent to the console log.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hint<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/console-logging\/\">Console<\/a> <strong>Pause<\/strong> button is your friend to prevent scrolling when reading.<\/li>\n<li>A set of menu items under <strong>Report<\/strong>.\u00a0 See the item <strong><em>Active Users<\/em><\/strong> -&gt; <em><strong>By Name (detailed)<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/>\nThese reports are sent to the document viewer, as they can be much longer.<br \/>\nThis report can also be created directly in the document viewer by pressing the <strong>Clients<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report which <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> provides of your currently connected users has been enhanced in a few simple ways over the revision 2 enhancement work. These were requested by operators who allow multiple connections from the same account.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will now see a list of all the current mountPts that any user account is connected to.<br \/>\nThis is of value to see what accounts are using your services the most.<\/li>\n<li>You will also see the last NMEA-183 $GPGGA message the client has sent (if any).<br \/>\nThis is of value to some operators who wish to track their user&#8217;s locations.<\/li>\n<li>The $GPGGA message is translated into LLH and the distance to the Base station is shown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The textual report will still show how much data has been sent to each user and for how long it has been connected.\u00a0 When operating in the autonomous mode (no user ID required) the report shows the IP:port used for the connection.\u00a0 If the user provided a user name at log-in, this is displayed.<\/p>\n<p>The report itself has been slightly restructured to present this information in a more readable way.\u00a0 Here is an example of a report of connected users:<\/p>\n<pre>The following <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">registered<\/span> users (of 3 total users) are connected at this time:\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 User: <span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #0000ff;\">User1<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 with 4 connections. [ <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">gisar30<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">RTCM3EPH<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">SCSC02<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">SCSC02<\/span> ]\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 User: <span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #0000ff;\">User2<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 with 4 connections. [ <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">gisar30<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">RTCM3EPH<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">SCSC02<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">RTCM3EPH<\/span> ]\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 User: <span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #0000ff;\">user<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0  with 1 connections.  [ <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">SCSC02<\/span> ]\r\nThere are <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">11<\/span> users in the Table of Registered Users.\r\n\r\nThere are currently 9 connections which are feeding data to these remote points:\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">RTCM3EPH<\/span> \u00a0 104.175.113.40 : 55949 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">User2<\/span> \u00a0 Sent: 1.030 MB Over: 16:06.617 minutes\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">RTCM3EPH<\/span> \u00a0 69.75.31.227 : 63193 \u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">User1<\/span> \u00a0 Sent: 1.459 MB Over: 22:48.490 minutes\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">RTCM3EPH<\/span> \u00a0 69.75.31.230 : 59917 \u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">User2<\/span> \u00a0 Sent: 1.427 MB Over: 22:15.018 minutes\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">SCSC02<\/span> \u00a0   104.175.113.40 : 55948 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">User2<\/span> \u00a0 Sent: 314.01 KB Over: 16:06.620 minutes\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">SCSC02<\/span> \u00a0   69.75.31.227 : 63195 \u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">User1<\/span> \u00a0 Sent: 443.89 KB Over: 22:47.190 minutes\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">SCSC02<\/span> \u00a0   69.75.31.228 : 64017 \u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">user<\/span> \u00a0  Sent: 451.17 KB Over: 23:07.109 minutes\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">SCSC02<\/span> \u00a0   69.75.31.230 : 59915 \u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">User1<\/span> \u00a0 Sent: 433.51 KB Over: 22:15.019 minutes\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">gisar30<\/span> \u00a0  69.75.31.227 : 63180 \u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">User1<\/span> \u00a0 Sent: 674.29 KB Over: 22:58.981 minutes\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 At location: \u00a0 $GPGGA,195314.13,3407.6618442,N,11749.5264569,W,1,00,1.0,284.697,M,-33.512,M,0.0,*7B\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">gisar30<\/span> \u00a0 69.75.31.230 : 59916 \u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">User2<\/span> \u00a0 Sent: 650.98 KB Over: 22:15.018 minutes\r\nRegarding the counts shown for data sent to a connection, keep in mind that any given user may have connected more than once.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note that in the above connection from User1 originating from xx.xx.31.227, the NTRIP Client is periodically sending $GPGGA sentences, and the last sentence received is being displayed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hint:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the &#8220;<strong>List Current Users&#8230;<\/strong>&#8221; button (found on the Caster and Clients tab) to see information about your current users.\u00a0 This data is sorted by mountPt (streams) and the users which are connected to each.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Useful to learn which mountPts and users access your <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SNIP<\/span> node the most often.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the &#8220;<strong>List Recent IPs&#8230;<\/strong>&#8221; button (found on the Caster and Clients tab) to see information about what IPs have been used to access your system. This data is sorted by IP used and user account (if any) and provides data on the number and length of the connections.\u00a0 The most frequent connections are then summarized, often these are NTRIP Clients who are experiencing connection issues.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Useful to learn who attempts to access your <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SNIP<\/span> node the most often.<\/strong> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the &#8220;<strong>List MountPts<\/strong>&#8221; tab (found on several tabs) to see information about your current data streams.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Useful to learn the current connection state of all data streams offered by your <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SNIP<\/span> node.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Further Hints:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You can also use <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>&#8216;s <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/support-for-basic-mapping\/\">map graphical display<\/a> style to see where any connected users are located.\u00a0 This feature will plot the last $GPGGA sentence from all users and, if the display is left open, update these values as new NTRIP Client data is sent in (producing a breadcrumbs trace o the Rovers movements).\u00a0 Those users who do not send $GPGGA sentences are plotted at zero\/zero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And you can also use the various hyperlinks to look up the gross location of connected users and Base Stations when no $GPGGA sentences are present.\u00a0 This will use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/geographic-reverse-ip-look-up\/\">reverse Geo-IP<\/a> abilities to display the location the user on a map to the nearest region based on their IP address.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common task for every SNIP operator is to check on who may be using your machine. 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