Session Manager

This page provides:

statistical information about the current connections to the servers
statistical information about the number of files sent, received and deleted
a list of all current connections to the servers

The data on this page is an aggregation of the data for each server that uses the shared configuration data. For default installations, this includes the FTP and SSH servers. For more advanced installations, such as server clusters, this page might show data aggregated from any number of sources.

Important: The information reported is aggregated from the last service restart of each service.

Note: The information presented on this page is always changing. As such, the information presented is only valid at the time the page is rendered. Any new information may take up to twenty seconds to appear in the Session Manager.

Connections

Session Manager will not display connections for users logged in as "admin," because "admin" is a special user.

Current connections. This value represents the total number of connections to the servers that are active when the page rendered.
Highest concurrent connections. This value represents the highest number of concurrent connections recorded at one time.
Connection attempts. The number of times connections were attempted, including cases where username and/or password authentication was not attempted.
Logon attempts. The number of times that username and/or password authentication has been attempted.

Files

Sends in progress. This value represents the number of transfers from the server to clients ("downloads" from the client perspective) that are in progress.
Receives in progress. This value represents the number of transfers from clients to the server ("uploads" from the client perspective) that are in progress.
Files sent. This value represents the number of files sent from the server to clients.
Files received. This value represents the number of files sent from clients to the server.
Files deleted. This value represents the number of files deleted from the server.

Sessions

This section shows all sessions currently active on the servers. For each session, the following information is also provided:

Client Address. This column shows the IP address of the client.
Host. This column shows the host to which the client is connected.
User. This column shows the user name that the client used during authentication.
Directory. This column shows the name of the folder where the client is currently active.
Last Command. This column shows the last command issued by the client.
KB Sent. This column shows the number of kilobytes sent from the server to the client during the current session.
KB Received. This column shows the number of kilobytes the server received from the client during the current session.
Idle Time. This column indicates the amount of time that has elapsed since the client issued the last command.
Transfer Active. This column indicates whether or not the client is currently transferring a file.
Listener Type. This column indicates the type of listener, FTP or SSH, to which the client is connected.

You can select one or more of the active sessions and click End Session to forcefully terminate the sessions. Ending HTTP sessions is not supported.

Note: You cannot end sessions that users initiate with the WS_FTP Server Web Transfer Module on this screen. (This is due to the fact that these sessions are controlled by IIS.)

Note: When you click End Session, the selected session or sessions are flagged for termination, but there may be up to a fifteen second delay before the session is terminated. During that delay, the session continues to appear in the list of sessions.