USER MANUALS

Setting the User Agent of an Application

The user agent is an attribute of the connections to Virtual DataPort. This attribute is a string that has to be set by the client applications.

There are several places that display the user agent of the connections:

  • Virtual DataPort publishes several MBeans with information about which application opened each connection, performed a request, etc. These MBeans have the attribute userAgent.

  • The logs generated by the Denodo Monitor.

  • The Query Monitor of the administration tool (“Tools” menu)

We recommend setting the user agent attribute from your client applications because it will help you identify the requests performed by a particular application. This is very useful for debugging problems caused by a particular client or for logging purposes.

The user agent is set in a different way depending on the type of client:

  • JDBC clients: add the parameter userAgent to the JDBC URL. For example,

    jdbc:vdb://localhost:9999/testing?userAgent=MyApplication

    Alternatively, you can add userAgent as a driver property instead of a parameter of the URL.

  • ODBC clients:

  • JMS clients: set the property userAgent in the JMS message. For example:

javax.jms.TextMessage message = session.createTextMessage(QUERY);
message.setStringProperty("userAgent", "userAgentValueJMS");

  • Administration tool: open the dialog Connection on the menu Tools > Admin Tool preferences and change the value of the box User agent.

The user agent is not configurable for other types of clients.