This seems like a good use for the Fedora JMS message producer, too: set up a listener for Fedora API-A and API-M events, then hand those events off to a bean counter that stores the data in a database, or a file, or...
-- Scott On 05/25/2011 09:34 AM, Stephen Bayliss wrote: > Hi > > As part of the PIRUS2 project [1] we are examining approaches to collecting > usage statistics from Fedora repositories. > > We are interested in hearing of existing approaches to this topic. Do you > collect usage information? If so, how? > > Some methods that I can think of are: > > 1) Fedora behind Apache, collecting information from Apache logs giving > direct Fedora access information > 2) Fedora front-end behind Apache, collecting information from Apache logs > giving front-end access information > 3) Tomcat log files > 4) Other logging from Fedora front-end applications > 5) Collecting information directly from Fedora logs > 6) Use of services such as Google Analytics > > Any experiences of, or thoughts on, any of the above methods would be most > useful, together with anything not covered by the above. > > Currently Fedora doesn't log access attempts apart from in the Fedora log > file, which may not be ideal as the format of this may change over time, > since it is not by design logging access attempts in a standard format I > believe. Any correction on this point most welcome! > > Fedora management requests can be collected as part of the messaging module. > One potential is to extend messaging to encompass access requests so these > can be collected by a suitable messaging client. Another option would be to > build access logging directly to a file within Fedora. Any thoughts on > developing either/both of these would be most welcome; either as an add-on > module or within core code. > > Regards > Steve > > > > [1] http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/tiki-index.php > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. > With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, > you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. > Download your free trial now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-commons-users mailing list > Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users -- Scott Prater Library, Instructional, and Research Applications (LIRA) Division of Information Technology (DoIT) University of Wisconsin - Madison pra...@wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
