Because here my quest is not to make logs available to webtrends, I know webtrends can get the logs from any where. My main objective is to store the iis logs on a different server than the web server because we are hurting for disk space. So I was saying if I cannot figure out a way to make iis log directly to the logfile server I will just let iis write to the local server and then move the logs to the logfile server nightly using a batch file and then would point webtrends to the logfile server. thanks
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:58 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IIS QUESTION DUDE - I did read the whole thread. What it appears you are trying to accomplish is getting IIS to log everything to a mapped drive or UNC path - if your web sites are so high traffic as you claim, you wouldn't want to incur the network overhead of doing that. So then YOU SAID, and I quote "I am thinking of just writing them to the local disk and then copy them to the logfile server every night with a batch file before the webtrends prog runs to analyse the logs." I just pointed out that you don't need to write a batch file - which if you knew you didn't need to write a batch file, why did you say you would write a batch file. Yes, I have ideas. -----Original Message----- From: kanee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IIS QUESTION dude read thw whole message before answering..not trying to be rude.....i know i dont need a batch file for web trends..if you read my entire problem you would have known what i was trying to accomplish, if you have any ideas for my problem i will appreciate it. thx -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IIS QUESTION Webtrends can simply retrieve the log files, you don't need to write a batch file. You might also want to move this discussion over to http://www.15seconds.com/listserv.htm, an IIS5 list where it is more on topic. Also, if this is a public website, I would not have them as member servers of your internal domain -----Original Message----- From: kanee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:39 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IIS QUESTION i cannot take that risk that comes along with the odbc logging i thought about it, these are highly visible websites in my organisation and a lot of traffic. I am thinking of just writing them to the local disk and then copy them to the logfile server every night with a batch file before the webtrends prog runs to analyse the logs. thx -----Original Message----- From: Felicity Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:38 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: IIS QUESTION Why can't you log to an ODBC datasource. This is not as performant as logging to a file. IIS runs under the local system account. The documentation you are reading must be incorrect. A note on IIS Logging. This is a high performance asynchronous process. So entries are flushed to disk when processor cycles permit. ODBC logging will degrade performance on your server as it is more of a synchronous process and as such prone to locking. I suggest you write to disk and then use a perl script to merge the log files. --Felicity > Here is the scenario. i have serverA, serverB and SERVERC(LOG FILE = > SERVER) > > I need to redirect all the websites log files from serverA and ServerB > = to serverC. > > In IIS5.0 when you go into the logfile properties and try to change > the = patch to a mapped drive it clearly says mapped drives and UNC > paths are = not supported. But in winNT4.0 it is supported. So i go > into the logfile = properties on serverA and serverB and change the > logfile path from = %systemroot%\system32\logfiles to > f:\logfiles(mapped drive to serverC) = it accepts the path but records > event id:2 cannot create folder and = cannot write to drive errors. I > looked it up and the article says that = IIS will write logfiles with > the logged on username meaning the account = you use for iisadmin > service account and if that account doesnt have = rights on the path > it will try and use the system account. When i go to = serverA and > serverB and look at the iis admin service it is using the = system > account and i am trying to change it to my account but the = options > are dimmed out meaning i cannot change the service account from = > system to m y user id. I tried this hoping that if i use my user id as > = the service account then my account has administrative rights on the > log = file server and i would be ok now that i cannot change the logon > account = my only option is to give the system accounts from serverA > and serverB = administrative rights on serverC but i cannot find the > system account in = user manager for serverA and serverB. I have > looked on my pdc and bdc = and i can see the system account but on my > serverA and serverB which are = member servers i dont see the system > account, if i can see the system = account on serverA and serverB then > i can add them to the administrators = group on serverC but i dont > even see them... > > ANY IDEAS??? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
