On Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:35 PM [GMT], Connors, Bernie (ELG/EGL) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a new user and I am using Analog 6.0 to report stats on an > Intranet server. I want a user report so I can show which users and > which divisions within my organization are making the most use of my > server. But my server does not require the users to be authenticated > so I don't have an authenticated user name in my log file. I presume > this means I cannot use Analog's user report. Is this correct? > > In my organization each computer is assigned to an individual user > and the computer name reflects the user's name. Therefore the > resolved IP address looks like this "XXX-username-XXX.myorg.ca". Can > I use something like the SUBDOMAIN reports to simulate a user report? > Or can I trick Analog and tell it the resolved IP address is the You could use the Host report, or you could use a custom logformat to tell Analog that the IP address field is the User field. But if your Logfile is only logging IP numbers, and you need to resolve the numbers to IP names, then you probably need to use the Host report, because the User Report won't do DNS lookups! Note that most Intranets use Dynamic IP address assignment (DHCP) so that if you resolve an IP address after the fact, it may not reflect the actual name of the user that was using the IP address at the time the request was logged. You can probably also use HOSTALIAS to convert XXX-username-XXX.myorg.ca to just username. The Host report is off by default, so run Analog with HOST ON to see what you get. Analog's own DNS resolution is not very fast, so you should probably test with a fairly small logfile. You will probably need to investigate some of the DNS Helper apps if you have a lot of different users to lookup. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
