Chuck Schick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Friday, June 07, 2002 7:52 AM):

> I have been using analog for a couple of years and Report Magic just
> recently.  As our webhosting business has grown, it has become
> apparent that we need to come up with a method where site stats are
> more automated.  It appears that analog is really designed for the
> desktop environment instead of an online server environment.  If
> others on this list are running analog on a web server with multiple
> domains(100+), I would like to hear how you automate it for each
> domain.  For us it appears that we would have to install a copy of
> analog for each domain with its own cfg file and then run it from
> batch files.  Ditto with Report magic.  If people have other ways of
> doing it - I would like to hear how they are doing it. Especially
> for Windows NT/2000 environment.

On the contrary, Analog and Report Magic are designed to be scripted.
If they were GUI apps I would think them more destined for Desktop
use, but they both take command-line parameters and can easily be
scripted. I have setup Analog and Report Magic on systems that host
several thousand websites. At that volume we even automate the setup.

Both products can read multiple configuration files and can be
controlled from the command line. Analog's command line codes
references is in the index (http://www.analog.cx/docs/indx.html) under
"Command-line arguments." Report Magic's command line arguments are
described in http://www.reportmagic.org/docs/commands.html.

Analog will normally read the default analog.cfg unless you
specifically exclude it with the '-G' argument. You can add other
config files with a '+gnew_config.cfg' argument.

Report Magic will read whatever settings file you give on the command
line, e.g.

      rmagic new_settings.ini

If you want to include another file, use the Include directive in the
file you are telling it to read.

In any case, scripting Analog and Report Magic is fairly easy.
Generally there are only a few settings you need to change for each
domain so you can probably do that from the command line in your batch
file. If there are several settings you want to change, make a custom
config and settings file for each domain and run Analog and Report
Magic for each file respectively.

-- 

Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group

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