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Session Recording View

Session Recordings Grid

Session recording grid at Monitor > Session Recordings lists the session recordings, fetched from Session Recording Management Server(SRMS).

HyWorks Controller must point to Session Recording Management Server listing endpoints URL (in format of IP:Port) to load/fetch session recordings list from SRMS. The configurations are provided in Recording Configurations document.

If recording listing is not visible, please follow below points.

Recording list is displayed with following columns in recording grid:

Sr. No. Column Name Description
1 Play Recording Displays Recording Camera icon. If icon is greyed out, user will not be able to play recording because of role permissions. Only Session Recording Auditor role users will be able to play recordings.
2 User Id Displays the username of recorded user session. If login username and RDP username is different then showing Login username along with RDP username in bracket.
3 Pool / Application Name Display pool name and its type(Shared/Dedicated Desktop) if recording session is desktop session. Display Application name if recording session is application session.
4 DVM Hostname Displays the hostname of machine where recording done on logged-in user session
5 User IP Address IP address of the machine where recording done on logged-in user session
6 Start Timestamp Displays Timestamp of first recording instance
7 Length Total length of recording.

Note

  • Signed trusted certificate required on SRMS to play recording.
  • If SRMS streaming endpoints is not configured then on recording will not be played.
  • Only Super-admin role and Admin role have permission to view recording listing on grid.

Playing Session Recordings

As specified in session recording document, that if appropriate recording profiles are created and assigned, SRMS server details are configured in HyWorks appropriately, then sessions will be recorded and uploaded to SRMS servers and users having Session Recording Auditor role will be able to view and play recordings.

To play a session recording:

  1. Go to HyWorks Management Console > Monitor > Session Recordings

  2. Click on icon to play recording

  3. Popup will open and will start to play recording.

    1. In recording popup, recordings of same user are listed.

    2. Click on a list item to play the recording in the same popup window.

Filters for Session Recordings

For ease of listing relevant recordings, filters are provided in recording grid. These filter can be applied to search specific recordings.

Following data filters are available:

  • Login Username [User Id]: To view recordings filtered by login username of the user.

  • RDP Username [User Id]: To view recordings filtered by RDP username of the user.

  • Pool Name: To view recordings filtered by the desktop pool name.

  • Application name: To view recordings filtered by application name accessed by users.

  • DVM Hostname: To view recordings filtered by specific host.

  • IP Address: To view recordings filtered by specific IP address.

  • Date filters are also available:

    • From (start) date

    • To (end) date

    • Start time is taken as 12:00 AM and end time is taken as 11:59 PM by default.

Important

  • All filters work with Equal Operator only.