E Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/26/2004 12:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [squid-users] Looking for good log analysis package
I have been going one by one though each package I can find to give me the
status of my squid server. So far I've been disapointed. The best information I can get is from SCALAR (http://scalar.risk.az/), but it doesn't save the data and only good for one run, plus the lack of HTML output (not a biggy though).
The main information I want, 'is the proxy actualying saving me bandwidth?'. I don't care who's done what or how much bandwidth they are using, I'm not looking to spy on my customers.
So my question is, does anyone know of a good package that will keep the data from old runs and give me data like the following:
In Traffic: 1.177 GB Out Traffic: 1.301 GB ------------------------------------ Saved Traffic: 127.726 MB 9.58 %
It would be nice to have the output be HTML and with some pretty pictures and all, but I'm more interested in knowing the above data over the course
of using squid.
Regards
first of all this is not the total bandwidth saved by squid.thats the total bandwidth saved by TCP_HIT and TCP_REFRESH_HIT
some bandwidth is also saved by TCP_IMS_HIT and in that case squid does not return objects to client , client have them already but it follows squid.(your refresh_pattern settings play an important role).
so no load on bandwidth but its only due to squid.
so a simple traffic analysis of squid box interfaces does not give u correct results.
u must use any from
http://www.squid-cache.org/Scripts/
i like 1.http://www.squid-cache.org/Scripts/NLANR/ (perl scripts) 2.calamaris 2.sarg 3.and squid graph (its creates graph but its resource hungry)
but also consider using mrtg to monitor squid at runtime.
regards usman.
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