Activity Data Collector
The activity data collector is an SAP NetWeaver Portal support tool. It traces user and content activity, monitoring portal requests and maintaining details of each request, such as the logged-on user, processing time, and the iView requested. For each request, a row is added to one or more data files: the main file, also called the base file, and additional files. You can create collector files and determine which data records are written to them.
The portal provides a page from which you can activate and configure the activity data collector. Your settings determine how the portal collects data. You can specify, for example, which statistics to keep, where to store data files, and in what format to write the data files. To activate
and configure activity data collection manually, using the portal service
com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector , see SAP Note
1517296 
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From the information that the activity data collector accumulates, you can create reports using Business Intelligence, spread sheets, or other analytic tools.
The portal does not provide an out-of-the-box capability for reporting the information collected by the activity data collector. The activity data collector collects detailed information about portal requests, and saves this information into files, one line for each request. You have access to the raw data. You are responsible for analyzing this data and creating reports, using non-portal tools.
You may want to process the files (for example, to combine files for different time periods or to upload data to a database or other system, and then to create reports from the processed data.