will_hostirian
11-07-2008, 06:10 PM
Helping a friend out, see if anyone can find this type of script/software below:
Anyone know of a consolidated software or utility that can login to the backend of multiple hosts to get usage graphs / stats?
I'm using about 6 different hosts and its getting to be a pain to login every day to every backend to get my usage data to monitor my servers. Anyone know a consolidated tool to do all this?
absolut
11-10-2008, 11:56 PM
The easiest way is to setup wget to fetch your stats.
wget has options to login and fetch recursively files. Like:
wget -r -l=2 -k -p --http-user=USER --http-password=PASS youhost.com/stats_url
hittjw
11-11-2008, 12:05 AM
With 72 active websites I download the log files twice a month into a directory tree, then run Webalizer against it. I'm using Webalizer because I only need the basics.
Because some of my sites span multiple servers I prefix the log files by server alias (i.e. w9-access_log-20081108.log.gz, where w9- is the server prefix), some sites use vcommon log format, so I need to break out individual host names.
Depending on what you have setup it doesn't really take much to get something that works. Just don't try to be too fancy, I spent a lot of time trying to get more out of free tools than they are worth.
Just get the basics and focus on site development till you can afford Webtrends or a big box tool. Remember you can use Google Analytics on the front end if you need path details. The 'wget' trick works well for getting your log files off servers by schedule.
Best,
Justin