Hey! Excellent! You should polish it up, zip it up and sell it as a tool!
Someone else might need the exact same thing!

Erika
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>>|-----Original Message-----
>>|From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>|Sent: 14 March 2002 19:25
>>|To: CF-Community
>>|Subject: RE: Reading CF logs. - solved
>>|
>>|
>>|Thanks.
>>|
>>|I ended up writing it in perl, which parses the 20MB logfile in
>>|subsecond time.
>>|
>>|Then it passes the deltas back to CF, which puts them away in the DB.
>>|
>>|Crude (but finished)  :-)
>>|
>>|Jerry Johnson
>>|
>>|>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/14/02 01:41PM >>>
>>|We use something called analog. I don't have access to the
>>|application right
>>|now but, basically, every week I tar the log files and mail them to the
>>|office then I use Analog to produce a report that we port over
>>|to a machine
>>|the customer can access. It has pretty pie charts and bars and tells all
>>|kinds of neato information.
>>|
>>|HTH,
>>|e
>>|
>>|
>>|-----Original Message-----
>>|From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>|Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:45 AM
>>|To: CF-Community
>>|Subject: Re: Reading CF logs.
>>|
>>|
>>|Yep, that's what I was looking for.
>>|
>>|So, Perl it is.
>>|
>>|Thanks,
>>|Jerry Johnson
>>|
>>|>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/13/02 06:23PM >>>
>>|There was a presentation by Timothy Nettleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] from
>>|HostCentric at the last Devcon who had written a very cool custom CF log
>>|file analysis program called Cosmos. I think he also wrote an
>>|article about
>>|it in one recent dev journals. I'm not sure if it's available,
>>|but it never
>>|hurts to ask.
>>|Here is a link to a powerpoint presentation about it.
>>|http://www.cfapostle.com/COSMOS/COSMOS-Public_files/frame.htm
>>|
>>|jon
>>|----- Original Message -----
>>|From: "Jerry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>|To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>|Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:33 PM
>>|Subject: Re: Reading CF logs.
>>|
>>|
>>|> Well, I need to allow (am trying to force) other people to
>>|monitor the web
>>|logs.
>>|>
>>|> But I don't want them anywhere near the actual files. (Shudder.)
>>|>
>>|> I want to be able to read the logs (from an 8 machine cluster)
>>|through CF,
>>|and show a human readable page that combines the logs.
>>|>
>>|> For example, 404 errors because they just deleted a file, but
>>|it is still
>>|on a menu, or they forgot to replicate a file.
>>|>
>>|> I am then going to save these errors to a db, then allow the editors to
>>|check off which errors have been fixed.
>>|>
>>|> So I need to grab off deltas, really.
>>|>
>>|> If I had a decent OS, I would just tail the darn thing, and get a
>>|reasonable chunk. But I can't install utils on these boxes.
>>|>
>>|> And if it was just 404s, I would handle it on the error
>>|handler, but they
>>|want a lot more than just that.
>>|>
>>|> (They want to understand what is happening on the servers, a
>>|goal I fully
>>|agree with)
>>|>
>>|> I do have Perl available, but am still hopeful of a clean CF solution.
>>|>
>>|> Jerry Johnson
>>|
>>|
>>|
>>|
>>|
>>|
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