Try to run the logs on the EQ try to have them log everything through ODBC.
IIS can do this and then Web Tremds can read this as well. Depending on the
amount of hits. SQL would obviously be better than SQL.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Wisdom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 10:09 PM
Subject: RE: Load balancing causes loss of referrer info in logs
>
> > All in all, the units seem reasonably priced for what they offer,
> > but I'd be
> > very interested in hearing if there's a solution to this problem.
>
> Right. But they are setting themselves up to be only low end, because this
> information is crucial for marketing. I'll post any results of the second
> inquiry to this forum.
>
> > You say
> > you've been in touch with Coyoted point in regard to decifering
> > the logs...
> > but have you asked them if there's any way to configure the
> > cluster so that
> > the web servers 'see' the originating IP address?
>
> They say there is no way without some software upgrade, which doesn't
appear
> to be in the works, but who knows.
>
> > Is their support _that_
> > bad?
>
> Our sysadmin did the original round of trying to solve this problem.
> Basically, he says that they said the above, plus that you can telnet to
the
> logs on the EQ, but that they had no idea how to analyze them. I have
> written them one final time to see if they can help us solve this issue
> before we start moving pages off of the EQ.
>
> > Are the logs on the load balancer intended to be analyzed
> > for traffic
> > reporting instead of your actual web server logs?
>
> I'm under the impression that they aren't intended to be analyzed, but
that
> this is the only option for any referrer analysis. As I'm sure you know,
> usage data does come through.
>
> > I'm curious how you'll do the logging at the web servers so that you can
> > analyze the logs. Would you log to a central ODBC datasource or would
you
> > merge the logs from all of your web servers before running them through
an
> > analyzer?
>
> Webtrends will merge the logs from IIS into one analysis. I'm curious as
to
> whether we could run a program to merge the logs from the cluster, then
run
> a comparison to try to extract the referrer info from the EQ and insert
into
> the main log. I doubt this could be done, at least during heavy traffic
with
> multiple hits/second.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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