Ari Barkan wrote:
> i'm new to the log analysis process, but in need of pulling together a nifty
>automated procedure.
> i've downloaded analog 4.0 running on NT 4.0 processing IIS 4.0. my goal is to
>automate the log
> retrieval process, log analysis process, and log archiving process. i was
>wondering if anyone could
> offer some advice on how they have automated their analog/NT system. some
>questions i have
> include: what NT program are you using to automate daily routines?
>
at. It's a command line utility described in some details in the docs.
It's somewhat similar to the unix crontab, but has it's own
peculiarities. (There are other commercial schedulers, such as WinAT,
that are easier to use, but this ships with NT). My recomendation (for
any scheuler) is to schedule batch files (or shell scripts on Unix) and
modify the shell scripts as needed. That way you only setup the
scheduler once.
> how to automate analog if the log file & output file is specified in
> the .cfg file?
Command-line options -- see the other thread about this right now,
"Report Titles for Virtual Hosts"
> are you zipping or gzipping the log files?
You can get a Win32 version of gzip from cygnus systems or (maybe) from
the FSF at gnu.org. Zipping and unzipping can save _a_lot_ of disk
space.
> before or after analog analyzes them?
Well, you zip up the files on a regular basis and tell analog (with the
UNCOMPRES command) how to unzip them.
> are you placing the log files on some external storage system?
You want the files locally on the system running Analog if you can.
> for sites that run cummulative reports such as the analog site (which
> i'm sure are automated in some way), are the log files being dumped
> into one directory, and analog runs reports on the group as a whole
> each day?
Yes, Analog needs to reprocess all the log files every time it runs
(unless you use the CACHE option).
Most of these questions are answered in the faq (docs/faw.html), I
think. :)
HTH,
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Digital Media Consultant
___________________________
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
http://www.wadsack-allen.com/digitalgroup/
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