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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hello,

> right now in our institution the use of CAT is growing fast according to
> the download totals we see in the CAT IdP panel but we miss other
> functionalities such as graphs or more detailed statistics (monthly,
> quarterly, etc).
> 
> Right now we are copy&pasting the data onto an excel spreadsheet but
> surely there is a way to do  the same thing more "politely" or even
> there is already developped a hidden functionality to accomplish what we
> want ......
> 
> Is it possible? How are you doing  those statistics in your institutions?

The CAT is growing very quickly throughout all particpants (we've
surpassed 130.000 user downloads altogether meanwhile!).

With the numbers growing so fast, I realise that statistics become more
important.

It's easy to add federation-level APIs which would allow federation
admins to download their stats on a regular basis. This is currently in
the works and will very likely make it into 1.0.4 even.

It is much more difficult to do the same for IdP admins though:
authentication to the CAT interface only works with SAML, i.e. involves
HTTP redirects to arbitrary IdPs. It is hard to achieve that with, say,
a cron job which would fetch the data on a regular basis.

An easy way around this (but I'm not sure if you IdP admins would be
happy with it) is: can the per-inst stats be downloaded
*unauthenticated*, i.e. for everyone?

If there is no perceived issue with that amount of publicity, making the
stats available via a simple POST and an XML response could be
implemented in no time...

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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