Re: [Summary-Talk] Sub Report Config Question

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/20/04 12:45 PM John May (jmaymailing@pointinspace.com) wrote:

>Sounds like I'm out of luck then.  I'm trying to do something really 
>simple here - simply create a sub-report per folder of logs in the 
>Logs folder.
>
>I just want a sub report per each top-level directory that contains 
>ALL requests from the log files within said directory.  This needs to 
>happen while still allowing the normal sub-reports we have that are 
>keyed off either specific file path requests (for our WebStar 4 logs) 
>or domain name(s) (for our Apache logs).
>
>Based on what you've said, it sounds like this is not possible?

That depends on what you are really looking for, a few details of your 
configuration that you didn't describe, and how much work you are willing 
to go to.

The WebSTAR 4 logs are easy.

I take it that the Apache logs contain domain names in each log entry, 
that the preexisting Apache related sub-reports are running based on the 
domain names in the log entries, that the new sub-reports you want to 
create are supposed to report on these very same Apache logs, and that at 
least one of your domains is served by more then one server? If any of 
these are not true, then it is again easy, though the details then depend 
on things you haven't said.

Assuming that my assumptions are correct, then it is no longer 
straightforward, but might well still be possible. At this point it 
becomes important to know what you want to see in these new sub-reports. 
I doubt that you really want the whole sub-report, you are presumably 
interested in one or two reports in particular. It may well be that 
Summary has an exiting feature to show you the information you are 
interested in, such as the Physical Servers report, and if it doesn't 
then I want to know what you are looking for so I can think about adding 
it in a future release.

The only approach that would do exactly what you asked for is more 
complex. If you duplicate the Apache logs, so that each log file appears 
both directly in Summary's Logs folder and in a sub-folder, you get 
around the "can only treat a single log file in one way" limitation. Then 
turn on "Always use folder name as domain name". The copy of the logs 
directly in the Logs folder will still get their domain from the log 
entry, so the existing sub-reports can work the way they already do, and 
the other copy will get it's domain from the folder name, and the new 
sub-reports can work off of that. When trying this you need to be careful 
of duplicate log file names, which may require some external scripting to 
prevent.

Jason

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