Description of the uAInSessionHelper.exe Helper Process
Some information is only available to processes running in a user’s session, not to services running in session 0. In order to be able to collect such data, too, uberAgent makes use of the helper process uAInSessionHelper.exe.
uAInSessionHelper is a lightweight and short-lived process that collects specific data, sends it to the main service and then exits.
How Often is uAInSessionHelper.exe Run?
uAInSessionHelper is run for the following reasons:
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To collect information about a UWP app
Frequency: once when the app is started -
To collect Internet Explorer performance data
Frequency: once per timer interval of the metricBrowserPerformanceIE -
To collect UX metrics for SaaS and web apps in Internet Explorer
Frequency: once per timer interval of the metricBrowserPerformanceIE -
To collect UX metrics for SaaS and web apps in Chrome
Frequency: once per timer interval of the metricBrowserPerformanceChrome -
To collect UX metrics for SaaS and web apps in Firefox
Frequency: once per timer interval of the metricBrowserPerformanceFirefox -
To collect GPU performance data
Frequency: once per timer interval of the metricGpuUsage
Troubleshooting uAInSessionHelper.exe
uAInSessionHelper log locations are documented here.
Please review the contents of these log files when you suspect things are not working correctly.
Common Errors
Class Not Registered
You may see messages like the following in uAInSessionHelper’s log file:
2015-09-04 22:16:48.140 +0200, ERROR, HK, XA1$, 1856, IE Performance, Action 2 failed with: -2147221164
2015-09-04 22:16:48.142 +0200, ERROR, HK, XA1$, 1856, GetBrowserPerformanceIE, Failed (2) with: Class not registeredThe root cause for these errors is that uberAgent can only determine IE performance per website if IE is run in desktop mode, i.e. not as a Citrix XenApp published application. If IE is run as a published application certain classes required by uAInSessionHelper are not available, thus the messages.
