[Summary-Talk] Re: Summary installed on one server, monitoring another

["Vijay-Kumar Solanki" <Vijay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply - I even got two of them :-)

As much as I still don't understand all of that which is Summary, I 
think I get this one.  This is what I plan on doing - please adviseof 
any wrong-doings:

1- Install Summary to the new box
2- Set up FTP on the main box to allow Summary to grab the apache log 
file (for us in httpd/), or mount the main box and create an alias to 
the log file directory
3- Move the Configuration file over to the new box
4- Set it and forget it :-)

Is this really that simple?

Vijay <- probably sounds not-too-bright 'bout Summary


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:06:13 -0500, Jason Linhart <jason@summary.net>
wrote:

> Vijay-Kumar Solanki wrote:
>>
>> We currently have Summary installed on a Server (we'll call it ip.20).
>> We want to move Summary to another Server (we'll call it ip.30).  When
>> we do this, we still want to monitor and obain reports from activity
>> from ip.20.  Is this possible, and is it a good or bad idea?
>
> Yes, this can be done and is reasonably easy to setup. Many people run
> Summary on one machine, reporting on web sites served by several other
> machines. This approach has advantages and disadvantages, which approach
> is best depends on several details your particular situation.
>
> When you setup Summary on a different machine you will either need to
> FTP/SFTP the log files over from the web server or mount the web servers
> hard disk on the machine running Summary so you can make a
> shortcut/symbolic link/alias to them in Summary's Logs folder. You can
> setup FTP/SFTP transfers on the Log Downloading configuration page.
>
> Running everything on a single machine is simpler and cheaper to setup,
> but everything needs to fit within the resources of a single machine.
> Running different services on separate machines is more reliable overall
> but somewhat more expensive and somewhat more complex to setup.
>
> Good Luck
> Jason
>



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