I think he was asking about the log rotate script that also FTPs a copy up to sniffer. Do we still need to FTP a log to Sniffer?
John T > -----Original Message----- > From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Pete McNeil > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:28 PM > To: Message Sniffer Community > Subject: [sniffer] Re: Updates to log rotation scripts > > Hello tfox, > > Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 10:23:46 PM, you wrote: > > > What updates/file name changes would be necessary for the log rotation > > scripts? > > It is possible to generate old style log files from the new version if you wish. Your > current scripts can be used as-is in that case. > > Hopefully you will be able to make the switch to the new XML based logs. > > Both log types can be rotated daily by the new engine. Specifically, today's date can be > prepended to the log file names. > > > How can we monitor the status of SNF in real time, via the XML pages? > > The first answer is that the new engine produces a number of status reports - every > second, every minute, or every hour. > > These status reports and logs, though formatted as XML, have been designed to be > relatively easy to see in a simple text editor. It does take a little bit of getting used to - > but not too much. > > > Is there such a thing as an XML reader? > > Yep. Your web browser. Just about every web browser can read and translate XML > data these days. The trick is -- translate how? > > You may want to use an XSLT utility, or more likely the XSLT capabilities in your web > server environment or even in your web browser alone. > > For example, you could take one of the status files, copy it to a new file. Add a few > lines of text - specifically to add a style-sheet definition and document type so that the > XML is "complete". Then you should be able to open the resulting file in your favorite > browser. > (You will have to create an XSL file (style sheet) to translate the XML file into what you > want to see.) > > [[ This is the approach I used to create the "rate chart" shown in > nowSimplePrescale.png, then I moved the whole thing to our web server to make it > more automatic. ]] > > Another way you might go is to import the XML from the log or status report into a > database. (Here again you may want/need to prepend a line or two of text to make > the XML completely compatible with your > environment) > > Then you would be able to extract reports from your database in "the usual way". > > We're hopeful that folks who are savvy about XML and XSL will create and share > useful translations and tools for SNF users. We look forward to supporting that effort. > > Internally we've done a few quick things to watch the telemetry we get from SNF > nodes and our own servers. The approach we've taken is to use the inherent XSLT > capabilities of our web/jsp servers and the basic capabilities in IE and Firefox. > > Attached are some screen shots of live data I am looking at right now. > This telemetry comes from one of our spamtrap pre-filters. > > nowSimplePrescale.png uses a simple XSL file that took me about 20 minutes to throw > together while thumbing through a text book. > > nowNodeDashbaord.png took a bit more work and leverages a flash based live gauge > tool that periodically pulls xml data from our internal servers (so it's animated). The > flash gadget came from here: > > http://www.maani.us/gauge/ > > We will also be creating some monitoring tools and services on our web site to take > advantage of the live data provided by the new SNF engine and some of our new > back-end tools. > > If anyone creates any useful XSL, tools, etc then please let us know and we will be > happy to post them on our site and create appropriate reciprocal links. > > Hope this helps, > > _M > > -- > Pete McNeil > Chief Scientist, > Arm Research Labs, LLC. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
