Here at the Boeing company in Seattle, we have a real need for Analog. We have over
400 Unix servers and several thousand NT servers, not to mention our servers on
mainframes. Our management wanted to know what sites are getting "hit" the most and
where the requests are coming from. This is a perfect application for Analog!
Some of the Unix people had obtained copies of Analog and tried to analyze the log
files for each of the servers. The sheer volume of of the files meant that a Unix or
NT server didn't have the disk volume to store the files. We're talking up to 100
GB of files every month! This is where I come in. I'm a mainframe systems
programmer. We were asked if we could handle that volume on our mainframe. Well,
that's what mainframes are for. A few hundred million records in a file doesn't bother
us in the slightest. My machine runs IBM's VM/ESA release 2.2.0. I got a copy of the
source for Analog 3.0 and tried to get it to run under OpenEdition, which is the Unix
Kornshell under VM (in EBCDIC). It took me about three months to get it to compile
with the LE/370 release of C for S/390, but I finally got an executable module. I set
up the .cfg file and obtained copies of the various types of logs we use -- NCSA,
CHEECH, APACHE, as well as many other forms, including the VM/ES!
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A form which is totally different from any of the others.
Analog 3.0 runs perfectly fine under VM/OpenEdition when using the sample.log file.
However, Boeing has a very large intranet, well protected by proxy and gateway
servers, all of which is .boeing.com. Most of our smaller servers report only the IP
address getting hit, not the domain name. Also, we do a lot of DHCP and RARP setting
of IP addresses, so a workstation will have a different IP address every time it
connects. Analog wants domain names and therefore almost all of my reports are empty.
Theoretically, I can turn on DNS WRITE and DNSFILE xx.xx and translate the IP
addresses to domain names. But it seems that Analog 3.0 in VM/OpenEdition doesn't
communicate with the domain name server!
I don't suppose there is ANYONE out there who has managed to get Analog 3.0 running
on either VM/OpenEdition or OS390/OpenEdition and has been able to get DNS to work
translating IP addresses to domain names, is there? If there is, please communicate
with me and tell me how you did it. Even if you have any ideas about how to access
the DNS server from any OE program, I'd like to hear about it. Do I have to do
something with the DCE server since the DNS server is on another host?
As an alternate scenario, is there any way to get Analog to report on IP addresses
instead of DNS names? All of our hosts end with boeing.com, and there is some talk
about reporting usage by division or by building using the router IP address. That
would actually be more helpful than being able to connect to the DNS server.
When I get this working, I'll send a copy of the working VM version so that others
can have it, too.
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