SP transaction.log ClientAddress use XFF?

Peter Schober peter.schober at univie.ac.at
Fri Nov 8 08:08:23 EST 2013


* Douglas Spooner <spoonerd at rsc.org> [2013-11-08 13:05]:
> I was wondering if it's possible to configure the transaction.log to
> use the X-Forwarded-For header as all the ClientAddreses that are
> logged show as our traffic managers private IP.

Not that log specifically but the SP's use of the client's IP address,
cf. the "REMOTE_ADDR" content setting:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPContentSettings

> Am I also right in thinking that transaction.log are all the
> successfully created/authenticated sessions as I was thinking of
> using this for some reporting.

Here's what you can get out of in in a recent release:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPLogging
You can select and structure that info to your liking, to ease or
enable post-procesing.
-peter


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