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

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vijay-Kumar Solanki wrote:
> 
>>You probably don't have the log downloading setup correctly.
> 
> Enable Log Downloading is checked
> URL: ftp://206.102.88.10/*
> Username and password are filled in
> 
> When I processed logs, I received one file in the Summary Logs folder
> called "*" and nothng else.

That would tend to happen when there weren't any files in the directory
you have configured Summary to download from. The might still be
directories in the remote directory, but Summary will only download
files directly contained in the directory you have configured
downloading for.

A good way to debug log downloading issues is to try to go to the
downloading URL in a web browser. In your case you would use the URL
<ftp://name:pass@206.102.88.10/> in a browser and see what you comes up.
You want to see a directory listing of log files, if you don't you
should be able to explore around in the browser until you find where the
log files are located.

> When I looked 
> at the Summary Log folder on the main computer (.10) there were many sub
> folders for each website or domain.  So what I tried was to mount the 
> .10 machine and copy everything from it's Summary Logs folder ( 
> essentially an alias to the httpd folder ) to the Summary Logs folder on 
> the new machine (.17).  This morning I have reports.

If you are able to mount the .10 machine on the .17 machine then you can
just use that approach to access your logs, instead of log downloading.
You need to setup the mount to be automatic on startup, and then make a
shortcut/alias/symbolic link (depending on platform) to the location of
the log files and put that in Summary's Logs folder.

If you copied the actual log files then what you have done is only a
temporary solution, since they won't get updated without manually
repeating the copy. But if you copied shortcuts/aliases to the log
files, or the directories containing them, then you are probably all set.

> I would have thought that ftp://206.102.88.10/* would have downloaded
> everything from the .10 machine.

That FTP configuration will download all of the log files in the default
directory for that FTP account, but it won't copy log files in
sub-directories of that directory. Each downloading configuration copies
files from a single directory. If your log files are located in many
different directories you will need one downloading configuration for
each directory. (Each sub-report has it's own log downloading
configuration.)

Jason

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