IIS6 & Log File Analyser

Hello,

I have quite a few more websites running on IIS6.0 and was wondering
if anyone could recommend a good tool for log file analysis.

I used to have just a few sites and so could manually run Analog 5.32
from the command line, jsut updating all the dates in the *.cfg files
- but now with multiple sites it has become quite a long and tedious
affair.

So was wondering if anyone knew of a faster, automated method/software/
service that could do it for you?

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.


Richard

Re: IIS6 & Log File Analyser

Hello,

Why not do a search and replace in all .cfg files if it is the same thing
that is being changed?


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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


rminnis82@hotmail.com wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have quite a few more websites running on IIS6.0 and was wondering
>if anyone could recommend a good tool for log file analysis.
>
>I used to have just a few sites and so could manually run Analog 5.32
>from the command line, jsut updating all the dates in the *.cfg files
>- but now with multiple sites it has become quite a long and tedious
>affair.
>
>So was wondering if anyone knew of a faster, automated method/software/
>service that could do it for you?
>
>Any recommendations?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>Richard

Re: IIS6 & Log File Analyser

Well all main websites are set to log daily to ensure that if a log
file gets corrupt, then only a days worth of logging is lost instead
of, say, an entire month.

The current log analyser is set to give monthly log analysis with a
summary of all months...meaning copying all daily logs for each month
in to a one month log file then running the analyser. Once you miss a
few months across a few websites, the task can then become very long
and tedious so I want to automate all that in to a short monthly task
- and am wondering if there is software available that already does
this?

Does that make sense?

Re: IIS6 & Log File Analyser

"...copying all daily logs for each month in to a one month log file then
running the analyser."

So when you run the log analyser you have only one single file per month?
I used to use Analog and i never changed the log files, and since each log
file includes time stamps, you should not have to.

Anyway, I doubt that you can find any software that does exactly what you
want. Do you have someone that knows scripting? I think that the manual
tasks you perform each month can easily be automated with a script.

If you are looking for another log analyser, there are a lot of them. I
have a small list of the more popular here:

http://www.gafvert.info/iis/software.htm

Personally I run "Log Parser" to produce my own reports.


--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


rminnis82@hotmail.com wrote:

>Well all main websites are set to log daily to ensure that if a log
>file gets corrupt, then only a days worth of logging is lost instead
>of, say, an entire month.
>
>The current log analyser is set to give monthly log analysis with a
>summary of all months...meaning copying all daily logs for each month
>in to a one month log file then running the analyser. Once you miss a
>few months across a few websites, the task can then become very long
>and tedious so I want to automate all that in to a short monthly task
>- and am wondering if there is software available that already does
>this?
>
>Does that make sense?