> > I'm able to get the squid-graph program to run and I have an apache web server > running but I'm not sure howto enable squid-graph to run and monitor my proxy > traffic continuously and report this to an apache web page. I want to get upto the > minute statistics on the status of my proxy. What do you guys use to monitor your > proxy, and if you use squid-graph how have you setup things to monitor your proxy > continuously to provide upto the minute statistics? > Use the crontab to get the statistics with minute status. > As a side note, it looks like the main documenation site for squid-graph has said > (http://squid-graph.securlogic.com/docs/) that in order to generate it's stats it > relies on >the access.log file being used. Is this true or just an example on thier > documentation site? I have actually disabled my access.log file and made the output > >goto /dev/null If you direct the access.log entries to /dev/null ,then no requests will be monitored. If you want to rotate the squid access logs daily then use the cron.daily It will rotate the logs daily. >after reading an article on how this file will overload your disk after a while, due >to all the requests being logged here. Regards, Muthukumar.
