When a user logs into Content Server, the system makes an entry in a table managed by Content Server global registry. If this is the first time a user has logged in, a new line is added to the table that records the login name of the user, the name of the application used to log in, and the time of the login. Consequent logins replace the latest use time and the login count in the table.

When a user logs into a Documentum application, that application, in turn, logs into Content Server with the credentials of the user. Therefore, one login to an application that supports usage tracking creates or modifies two lines in the table, one line for the application login and one line for the Content Server login. If you use an application that does not support usage tracking, only the Content Server line is created or modified.

For example, if a user logs in to Webtop, there are two lines modified in the global registry. One line shows the Webtop login and one line shows the Content Server login, since Webtop supports usage tracking. If a user logs in to Content Server using IDQL, there is only one line modified to show the Content Server login, because IDQL does not support usage tracking.