Re: [Summary-Talk] configuration advice for 3 domains

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/13/03 9:48 AM Dale Stokdyk (DaleS@optelec.com) wrote:

>Our company has 3 different domains, and log files are available for all 
>3. I'd like to be able to analyze each domain separately. To accomplish 
>this, I believe the best way to proceed is to create 3 separate 
>sub-reports and specify the specific log download sources and log storage 
>folders for each (described as "Method Four" in the manual)?

Yes.

>By doing this, will Summary automatically create a "meta" report for all 
>3 domains, or are there additional steps involved?

Not by default. If you want a report with everything in it you will have 
to create on manually, just include all domains and all requests in the 
sub-report.

>And what if I don't 
>really care that much about a "meta" report - do I still need to specify 
>one of the 3 domains on the "Log Downloading" configuration page in order 
>to get started?

It is best to setup the log downloading for each domain in the sub-report 
that is reporting on that domain.

>Also, our ISP provides daily "web.log" files for each domain. How do I 
>avoid these files being overwritten every day when Summary downloads the 
>new log? Or do most users enable incremental processing and not worry 
>about saving copies of each log?

Incremental processing will remember all of the historic information. 
Many people don't bother keeping log archives, though many people do.

Summary doesn't really do log archiving, old logs will get overwritten in 
that situation. If you want to keep historical copies of all of your logs 
you will need to find some other way of setting that up.

I hope your provider also offers you yesterdays log as well as todays 
log, otherwise you are going to miss some log entries. If you don't have 
both today and yesterday, then when the log gets reset at the start of 
the day you will miss a few log entries.

Good Luck
Jason

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