Re: Reporting tools

[Chad Schieken <chad () Op Net>]

There is a tool I've used for a right around 3 years time called Analog.
It gives all the specific information requested.

It's free, it's pretty well actively maintained.In addition to the normal Command
line interface (from any shell, etc.) it has a web interface  so that
users  can request reports on demand. Although the CGI had some security related
coding errors, they've been fixed. 

It's free. It's always handled dates properly (no Y2k issues). 

It handles many log file formats, and can be told what format a specific log is in.
So it can handle new formats. 

Here is the URL for it's webpage, which is mirrored in a lot of places:
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/

I've copied the author incase he has any other comments.

Oh, and it runs on most UNix's and on NT/9[5,8]


Historians claim that klynn () santacruz org wrote:
> From: klynn () santacruz org
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 13:35:01 -0800 (PST)
> To: John Parker <jparker () powertel com>
> cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Re: Reporting tools
>
> Speaking of that..  I've been looking at an extensible way to process
> logfiles and generate stats pages. Something where you tell it what format
> the logfiles are in so it knows how to work with them.
>
> Anyone interested in helping me do something like that? I'm disgusted at
> companies charging $1500 per domain being stats'd. So, I'd love to develop
> one under the GPL.
>
> Most of the tools needed are already GPL'd as well so it shouldn't be very
> difficult.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, John Parker wrote:
>
> > We are currently evaluating several reporting products that take the
> > checkpoint log files and use that information to give us reports on
> > bandwidth usage, top 50 websites hit, top 50 internet users...  We're also
> > looking for peak usage hours, peak days of the week, etc...
> >
> > Are any of you using anything like that?  Before I mention what we're
> > looking at, I'd like to get some unbiased opinions.  What are the pros and
> > cons based on the tools you've used?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.