What is user session management?

User sessions

The session management function lets administrative users monitor active user sessions in NSP. The Sessions GUI lists all active NSP user sessions and REST API sessions.

Administrative users can manually terminate one or more user sessions and send messages to one or more active NSP users. Messages would typically be sent to forewarn users of an upcoming session termination, or for other operational events in the NSP system. Messages appear in any NSP views the recipient users have open. Messages are flagged as Information, Warning, or Urgent. Recipient users must have NSP open on their desktop to receive messages.

Note: You cannot send messages to REST API sessions because they do not involve actual users. Exercise caution in terminating REST API sessions, as they often involve critical network functions.

User activity logging

Administrators can use the NSP user activity logging function to monitor users’ actions across NSP functional areas. NSP user actions are logged in the Users and Security, User Activity Logs view, including actions invoked through REST APIs or NSP UIs.

NSP user event logs contain the following types of information:

• identity of user associated with event

• event type (configuration change, file access, etc.)

• executed operations and their results

• event time

You can retain activity logs for up to 365 days, with up to 10000000 log events, as configured in the User Activity Logs settings. You can also export activity logs to an external file for archival purposes.

Note: The NFM-P and WS-NOC activity logging functions run separately from NSP activity logging.