Re: [Summary-Talk] Sub Report Config Question

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I have subfolders for the log files from our servers in the Logs 
folder.  Each folder contains the log files from one particular 
server.  I'm trying to set up a sub-report that'll report on the log 
files from one particular server, so I can see what kind of traffic 
each server is doing individually.

I just set up a sub report, with the folder names for one server 
listed in the "Domains to include in this Sub-Report", and * listed 
in Requests to include.  Will this do what I'm looking for?

For our sub-reports normally, the ones from WebStar 4 servers key off 
of the "Requests to include in this sub-report" (eg: 
/www/sitename/*), while the Apache servers key off the domain names 
entered in the "Domains to include in this Sub-Report" section.

Thanks for any help!

	- John


>On 3/17/04 7:18 AM John May (jmaymailing@pointinspace.com) wrote:
>
>>But there's no way to tell a sub-report to use a particular folder of
>>logs AND to only include certain domains or requests from said
>>folder?
>
>Mostly true. You can use the folder name and the request to determine
>which log entries to include, but you can't use the folder name and the
>server name taken from the log entry to select log entries at the same
>time in one sub-report. However, in many situations you can use the
>folder name in one sub-report and the server name taken from the log
>entry in another sub-report at the same time.
>
>>And there's no way to use the folder name as the domain name
>>for only one sub-report (which is necessary for the method you
>>mention, right)?
>
>There are two different ways that you can do this, if you have your log
>formats setup correctly and you are working with two different
>sub-reports. If you turn off "Always use folder name as domain name" then
>logs which have server/domain names in the log entry will use that, but
>logs which don't contain server/domain names in each log entry will use
>the folder name. If you turn on "Always use folder name as domain name"
>then logs which are in sub-folders will use the sub-folder name but logs
>which are placed directly into Summary's Logs folder will use the
>server/domain name from the log entry.
>
>I am not sure what you are trying to do. If you say what your goal is I
>can probably come up with a way to get Summary to do it. Mixing different
>approaches for configuring sub-reports in a single copy of Summary can
>get fairly complex, but I have never run into a situation that Summary
>couldn't handle at all. Sometimes it takes a little while to figure out
>what the best way to approach things is.
>
>Jason
>
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