On Monday, December 19, 2005 8:44 AM [EDT], Bucko, Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to answer my question! I tried a > switch and got this error message: > > J:\Bucko\Web Work\puffinlog\analog.exe: Warning D: In Request Report, > SORTBY > (bytes) doesn't match ARGSSORTBY (requests) > J:\Bucko\Web Work\puffinlog\analog.exe: Warning D: In Request Report, > SORTBY > (bytes) doesn't match FLOOR (requests) > > Obviously I'm clueless here :) > > I understand that it's important to go by bytes -- but will the report > will still show in terms of numbers of pages? In my head number of > "calls" makes more sense than size of traffic. Hmmmm I'm speaking a > foreign language. I think I caused some confusion - I misread your earlier post and thought that the second warning referred to the Request Report. It isn't important to go by bytes - it's important to go by whatever measure is most important to you. That's why Analog allows you to specify different sort orders and floors. The important thing is that if you change one of the defaults, it may clash with the other settings for that specific report. Sometimes that doesn't matter, sometimes it does, which is why Analog warns you about it. You don't have to use the same SORTORDER for different reports - for instance you might want to sort your Host Report by PAGES rather than REQUESTS, so that spiders (that don't request images), aren't hidden by ordinary users that request 10 times as many images as they do pages (for example). So to get back to the warnings you got this time. You changed your DIRSORTBY back to bytes, so the Directory Report warnings went away, because you're just using the defaults for the sub reports and the Floor. But you've now changed the default for the Request Report from Requests to Bytes, so that the sorting of the top level of the Rquest Report no longer matches the sort order of the arguments, and the FLOOR. You can fix this by specifying REQARGSORTBY bytes REQFLOOR 1b (You might need REQARGSFLOOR as well at that point). Again, you might not care, (I usually ignore these warnings if I'm doing a quick one-off report), but if you're setting up a report to run regularly, then it makes sense to set the subsortorders and floors if you are changing the defaults. > BY THE WAY -- thank you for this tool -- (I assume you are one of the > creators?) -- I was able to use it as part of my application for full > professor here at Creighton to demonstrate the uses of my research! > So I'm most grateful! No, Stephen Turner is the author - I've made suggestions over the years, and helped out with some helper apps. I'm glad to hear that Analog was so useful to you. > Can you please sort out my .cfg file so that I match byte to byte so > the report is consistent? THANKS -- here is my config: There's no such thing as the "right" config - we each have different needs and requirements, and what works for you mightn't work for someone else. > # sorting > DIRSORTBY BYTES > REQSORTBY BYTES Aengus > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aengus > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 7:06 AM > To: Support for analog web log analyzer > Subject: Re: [analog-help] 2 persistent errors in my log > > On Saturday, December 17, 2005 7:41 PM [EDT], Bucko, Raymond > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I run analog 6 I keep getting these two errors: >> >> J:\Bucko\Web Work\puffinlog\analog.exe: Warning D: In Directory >> Report, SORTBY (requests) doesn't match SUBSORTBY (bytes) >> >> J:\Bucko\Web Work\puffinlog\analog.exe: Warning D: In Directory >> Report, SORTBY (requests) doesn't match FLOOR (bytes) >> >> I looked up the errors and the docs were not much help for how to fix >> them! > > They're warnings, not errors - Analog will usually stop on an error, > and won't generate a report. That means that you can just ignore them, > unless they you think that they indicate that you aren't seeing > information that you want to see. They're also pretty descriptive of > the problem. > >> DIRSORTBY REQUESTS >> REQSORTBY REQUESTS > > The Directory Report is a Hierarchical report, it has a tree structure > that can list subdirectories below wach directory. You've changed the > default sorting order for the top level directories, but not for the > subdirectories. > If you care, specify SUBDIRSORTBY REQUESTS as well. > > You have a similiar problem with the Request Report - the report has a > floor that is specified in Bytes by default, but you've sorted the > report by Reqests - you could have a small document that is requested > a lot of times but that falls below the Byte floor, so it wouldn't > show in the report, even though other items with less requests do > show - that can be misleading when the report is sorted by Requests. > > Again, just specify a FLOOR that matches your SORTBY - REQFLOOR 1r. > > Aengus > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------- > +- >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: >> http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help >> >> Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html List >> archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives >> Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general > +----------------------------------------------------------------------- > +- +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
