Hi Chris, We went through this a while ago. The 30 day limit and the stats in general truly bite the big one.
Like you I'd wondered why the IIS Logs couldn't be used to return something meaningful....but then I looked at them. :) By the time you finished writing all your exceptions for applications pages, theme resources, form views, web services etc. there's really not a lot left. For publishing sites you could return something vaguely useful in the way of page hits. But for team sites and WSS sites in general most action occurs through web part interaction and documents, neither of which seem to generate clear log entries. I ran up an instance of AWStats just to be sure and the results were pretty pointless. I can agree with Tommy that CardioLog Lite is pretty decent but it also has fairly high requirements and, from memory, was restricted to running IIS in 32-bit when last I checked. I believe MAPILab also have a solution, and Webtrends also claim to support MOSS/WSS. And then there's Nintex Reporting... Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 13 October 2009 12:58 PM To: ozMOSS Cc: ozMOSS; [email protected] Subject: Usage Reporting Hi Guys, I am just wondering what everyone is using to monitor sharepoint usage. I have enabled usage report for sharepoint and user's comment was it's pretty limited. They weren't able to look through the daily data and the reports are only limited to 30 days data I have also looked into sharepoint database directly and although I am able to get statistic on resources hits but I can't find any data stored for the visitors, for example their browsers and OS information. Will IIS log parser help in this situation? will it be able to catch all the information for sharepoint site? there must be a reason why sharepoint is using report on it's own rather than depending on IIS log/report, right? So if anyone has experienced this situation before and would like to share his methods/solutions it would be great. Many thanks, Christian ===================================================================== Disclaimer: This message is intended only for the use of the person to whom it is expressly addressed and may contain information that is confidential and legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, reliance on, reference to, review, disclosure or copying of the message and the information it contains for any purpose is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail of the misdelivery and delete all its contents. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the Company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. _______________________________________________ ozmoss mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss _______________________________________________ ozmoss mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss
