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 from your client applications because it allows you to identify what application opens each connection and the requests that each application sends. This is 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:denodo://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:

jakarta.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 RESTful web service, REST and SOAP web services: the value of the HTTP header User-Agent of the requests is passed along with the statements these services execute in the Virtual DataPort server.

  • From the administration tool, JDBC clients and a ODBC clients, execute the command CONNECT with the parameter USER_AGENT.

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