Every Apache server we have logs all hits to one log, which is rolled
nightly. Summary used built in ftp to pull down only the new log
files. Is there a provision to get logs from remote machines, or
will
I need to look at something like rsync to make this happen?
Analog just analyzes the logfiles, it doesn't do any logfile
"management", so you'd have to handle that yourself.
What would be the best way to manage this then. Consider a system
where there acre apache access_logs from 10 machines. There is an
11th machine that will do analog. I have a log rolling on 24 hours,
which means, I could rsync the remote logs directories of the 10
machines and keep all 24 hour log files up to date. However, the like
log, access_log, that is in progress, needs to come over just before
analog runs. This, with incremental, gives the client, what appears
to be near real time stats.
I could run rsync every 4 minutes, and have analog run very 5, but
this is a poor method, as times get out of sync, some logs are larger
than others etc. I am going to assume analog is triggered by
scheduler? If that is the case, could I simply write a simple script...
1) rsync the log files
2) when above reports success, run analog
I believe, that Summary, is more or less doing just that, it just uses
ftp for the transport, and MDTM to determine the need to download an
ftp log again.
I understand analog is one of the most popular, though if it is not a
good suit for a large shared hosting environment, please let me know.
I have seen where logs are dropped into the virtual hosts client
directory, and analog is set as an option to point to just that users
files. I however, prefer to parse out my entire facilities worth o f
logs.
Thanks for the replies and help, most appreciated.
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