[analog-help] HostExclude not entirely effective?

[Bruce Jeffreson]

ENVIRONMENT: - Windows 2000 Professional, IIS, W3SVC log files (all fields enabled)   WHAT I DID (etc): Run analog on the log files & all seems fine. Notice that our own IP addresses are turning up I want to COMPLETELY exclude our own machines from the analysis, so I add to analog.cfg:   HOSTEXCLUDE 213.155.156.*    ... I would expect this to tell analog to COMPLETELY IGNORE any lines where the c-ip field matches a HOSTEXCLUDE line/pattern (ie as if those lines were physically removed from the logfiles before analog is run)   This seems to reduce most of the counts, which is good But the excluded addresses are still turning up in the 'Referring Site Report'   Consequently, I have no confidence that our own machines are being excluded from ALL reports. The Include/Exclude section of the help is not clear on exactly what HOSTEXCLUDE is doing & what it seems to say is that it should withold these addresses altogether (from all sections of the report), which is not happening.   QUESTION: -how do I prevent IP addresses & URLs showing up in the analog report altogether? - do I need to use multiple EXCLUDE commands to withold internal addresses from all sections of the analog report? -what exactly does HostExclude do?! The help text is not very clear on this.   This is extremely frustrating, as it prevents me from having confidence in the numbers that analog is producing.   Bruce