>John Ringloff wrote:
>
>> What I don't know how to do (elegantly,) is differentiate between
>> servers on a entry by entry basis, as it is a common file space, and
>> there is no identifying information about which server each entry
>> came from.
>
>There is in your logfile names:
>
>>LOGFILE /dfs/os/unix/hosts/art/logs/apache-SSL/access_log.20000501.gz
>>LOGFILE /dfs/os/unix/hosts/bus/logs/apache-SSL/access_log.20000501.gz
>I assume the directory after hosts is the originating server. Since
>Analog doesn't
>really do anything with this data (although I suppose you could
>hijack the Virtual
>Host report into something like a Servers report), you could just
>use the names to
>differentiate host-specific reports, much like you are doing with dates.
Yes, and yes, I just haven't found it worth the effort, The thought I
had is that I would tag the logs with the machine nameon log entries
such that I could do something with it later, but analog doesn't have
a order/count by pre-labled "junk" in the log line routine, That
would be cool though. Then I could do ONE report, and and along with
by directory etc, I could do a by host break down of how pages are
being served.
>
>Running the stats for a 20-server web farm is a pet project? What's
>you're real
>job like? :)
Usually, I have no more work to do for stats than prepping scripts.
Analog installed effortlessly, I modified only a few things for
presentation and have found it a joy to use.
Educational institution: massive projects, impossible deadlines,
under-compensated/overworked, no resources, and plenty of politics.
The only thing I can't really tolerate in the above is the politics,
and the ironic situation that IT folk rarely are able to keep their
skills current at educational sites due to workload. We use a team
approach, there are about 20 people who group up as needed that keep
the all our machines running, including the DCE. I am just the web
guy, we have a really good system admin, and a CS prof was also
involved in design/implementation of the DCE. Our system admin has
done most of the dirty work that makes life good for everyone.
You get to work with interesting people though, and you get to do
more than the pigeon holes that are now popular in the dot com
industry. Remember when you could get a job as a "web guy", now your
a developer, or designer, etc. No variety, little cross training,
less fun.
One week you're running wire and placing switches, the next we are
web design, the next system administration. It's great, I just wish
there was some money in it.
>Anyway, it's fairly easy with Apache Custom Logformat commands to add a server
>identifier to the logfile entries. You can then use Analog to
>process this into a
>vitual host report by asigning it the %v field in the format. Alternately, you
>could append a 'vitural host' URL to each LOGFILE entry in log confs and use
>'virtual host' features that way.
I didn't think of using the virtual host feature to handle the
report, that is good. Thanks! I think I may give that a whirl on the
test platform.
> > My next pet project in this respect is to do something about host
>> lookups, they take forever. I would like to just skip 'em but I have
>> a feeling the users want them. I should also probably move up to the
> > current version of Analog.
>
>Try a third party lookup tool. DSNtran is very fast, especially on
>Linux. If all
>your servers are Sun (which is slow at DNS lookup), you might want to throw
>together a Linux box just to do lookups, with it's own nameserver and a short
>cycle for rechecks.
SunOS5.6. I have a FreeBSD image sitting on a machine in my office, I
just haven't done anything with it yet. Thanks I will consider it.
Thanks again,
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John Ringloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
University Webmaster, Enterprise Computing (V) 909.869.5086
Instructional and Information Technology (F) 909.869.4330
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona <KQ6PX>
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