How to find information about all sessions for a web-app/site.

Question

I am trying to create an admin screen that will give me details about all open sessions in an application/site. I would also like to know how many session objects are active for each of them

Session object gives me info about my current session. How do i find info about all open sessions. How many sessions are active, etc.

Thanks,

SK

Answer 1

Assuming you want to do this in your ASP.Net code, and not by using a web server tool, you can increment a counter in an Application (or Cache) variable on Session_Start, and decrement it on Session_End in Global.asax.

If you want to know more than the count of active users, you can accumulate user information in a collection there -- a List<T> of User objects, perhaps.

Here's some code to get you started with this approach:

    protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Application.Lock();
        Application["SessionCount"] = Convert.ToInt32(Application["SessionCount"]) + 1;
        Application.UnLock();
    }

    protected void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Application.Lock();
        Application["SessionCount"] = Convert.ToInt32(Application["SessionCount"]) - 1;
        Application.UnLock();
    }