Depending on what operating system you are running, you should be able to automate most of these steps. Analog itself can do much of the work for you - especially if you put most of the configuration into a common config file, and include it from a custom one for each customer.
Some other suggestions are embedded. Adrian At 05:28 PM 8/1/02 +0100, you wrote: >Hi All > >Before we looked after web sites ourselves, our ISP used to email us weekly >Analog reports for each of our web sites. This Analog email report is the >perfect format for us and our clients, but now that we have switched ISPs we >have to do the reports manually. > >This is VERY time consuming as we have to do the following: > >1) Download the web logs from 10 different FTP sites each week. We are >using a 56K line and the logs aren't zipped so you can imagine how long this >takes. Have you asked if they can be zipped or gzipped? It would be to the webhost's advantage, so they might be willing and able to do this for you. >2) Rename each log file to suit the analog.cfg file. You do not need to do this - analog can read from multiple log files. >3) Remove one set of '#'s from the analog.cfg file for the report that we >are doing. Try using HOSTEXCLUDE or HOSTINCLUDE >4) Run Analog. The DNS lookups take an age with 56k line. You could turn it off! Alternatively run one of the preprocessor applications. >5) Copy and paste the results into an Outlook New Message. > >6) Type in our client's email address and then send it. > >We have to do the above 10 times, as Analog can only take 1 report at a >time. > >Can anybody assist on how we can speed up any part of the above procedure? > >Please note that upgrading the 56k line to ISDN, ADSL, etc is not a viable >solution at the moment so any other tips or links to 3rd party apps would be >very much appreciated. > >Many thanks. > >Rgds > > >Robbie Adrian Dolling, Systems Consultant Public Library Services Branch Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services PO Box 9490 Stn Prov Govt (mailing address) Victoria BC V8W 9N7 800 Johnson St, Victoria, BC (street address) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mcaws.gov.bc.ca/LGD/public_libraries/ Tel: 250-387-4043 or 1-800-663-7051 FAX: 250-953-3225 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
