Re: [Summary-Talk] Sub Report Config Question

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason -

Each domain is only served by one server.  Does this make the procedure 
easier?

	- John


>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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>Jason@Summary.Net
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