One of the computers runs the Web server. If it serves intranet or Internet pages, it is on the network. Knowing the brandname of the server (MS Internet Information Server, Apache, etcetera) and the type of operating system (MS Windows, Mac, etcetera) helps one determine the standard name and location of the server configuration file (which contains the name, location, and format of the server logfile). Altiris, to the best of my knowledge, builds backup solutions. One can only guess if your backup is for data files only or if it includes logfiles as well (i.e., the logfile might not be stored on the Altiris machine).
Basic questions to ask your IT staff are: is your Web server run in-house or by an outside vendor? If in-house, which person is responsible for server operations? If outside vendor, where is the contact information for the vendor?
With those answers, you can now (hopefully) communicate with the person who can answer your questions, which are: what type or brand of server is being run? is a logfile of visits being saved? Can that logfile be copied to a machine/directory to which you (can) have access? Depending the responsibilities of the person with whom you are dealing, a day or two (but no longer) might be required for a response. These questions are pretty basic.
If you can't get reliable answers to these questions, there is no way to run Analog (or any other statistical analysis software). Everything hinges on the raw data that is found in the logfile. Without the logfile, you have nothing.
-- Duke
anastasia policicchio wrote:
I'm running the site, uploading directly from frontpage. how would i be able to find out what server we have? the computer is a work computer with an intra and internet page. i want the stats on the internet page. from what i understand, all our computers are networked to an altiris server and i'm not sure what server hosts the site. i don't get access to any of that information through frontpage which is what they're having me use and the is department doesn't know what i'm talking about when i say a logfile and what server i need to access. how can i get info on the web server to get the logfiles? thanks so much.
where would the web server config file be? thanks so much
--anastasia
From: Duke Hillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [analog-help] logfile Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:12:11 -0500
The logfile will usually be on the same computer as your Web server.
You should be able to determine the location of the logfile from your
Web server's configuration file. If Analog runs on another computer,
then you need to move/copy the logfile to the computer with Analog,
then tell Analog (via the Analog configuration file) where the logfile is
located. If Analog runs on the same computer as the Web server, it
still must be told via its (Analog's) configuration file where the logfile
is located.
Hope that helps,
-- Duke
anastasia policicchio wrote:
I can't seem to find what/where the logfile is for my site. I'm running a analog 5.32 on MS 2000 OS
It says it generates a report but then there are 0 results.
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