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CHAPTER 7:

Logging Server Activity


Microsoft Peer Web Services automatically logs all activity on your server. You can use this information to analyze traffic to your site and identify possible problems.

This chapter explains how to:

 


TOP Configuring Logging

When you set up Peer Web Services, you enable logging to see who has been using the server and how many times your online information was accessed.

To configure logging:

 
In Internet Service Manager, double-click the service to display its property sheets. The Logging property sheet sets logging for the selected information service.

Logging Limits

When logging to a file, the maximum total log line is 1200 bytes. Each field is limited to 150 bytes.

Enable Logging

To start logging, select the Enable Logging check box on the Logging property sheet. To stop logging, clear the Enable Logging check box.

Log to File

Choose Log to File to log activity information for the selected information service to a text file.

Automatically open new log

Select this check box to generate new logs as specified. If not selected, the same log file will grow indefinitely.

Log file directory

Sets the directory containing the log file.

Filename

Lists the filename used for logging. If multiple services are configured to log to the same directory, they will use the same file.

»&#nbsp;&#nbsp; To log to a file

 
For the Daily, Weekly, or Monthly option, the log file is closed the first time a log record is generated after midnight on the last day of the current log file. The new log filename will include the date of the first day in the log file.

For the When file size reaches option, every time the log file is closed and a new one is created, the sequential number in the filename is incremented.

When logging to a file, the maximum total log line is 1200 bytes. Each field is limited to 150 bytes.



Note    Peer Web Services supports logging to files only. If you want to log to a SQL/ODBC database, you need Internet Information Server running on Windows NT Server.


TOP How to Read Log Files

Following are three entries from a log from a server running the WWW, gopher, and FTP services; the entries are in two tables only because of page-width limitations.

Client’s IP address Client’s username
Date

Time

Service
Computer name IP address of server

10.75.176.21 - 12/11/95 7:55:20 W3SVC TREY1 10.107.1.121
10.16.7.165 anonymous 12/11/95 23:58:11 MSFTPSVC TREY1 10.107.1.121
10.55.82.244 - 12/11/95 0:00:34 GopherSvc TREY1 10.107.1.121


Processing time

Bytes received

Bytes sent

Service status code
Windows NT status code
Name of the operation
Target of the operation

29282 277 3223 200 0 GET small.gif
60 14 0 0 0 [376] PASS intro
27069 21 62184 0 0 file form1.bmp

Parameters for the operation, if applicable, will be listed in the final fields.



Note   All fields are terminated with a comma (,). A hyphen acts as a placeholder if there is no valid value for a certain field.

TOP Converting Log File Formats

The Microsoft Internet Log Converter converts Microsoft Peer Web Services log files to either European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre (EMWAC) log file format or the Common Log File format. Convlog.exe is located in the \Inetsrv\Admin directory. At the command prompt, type convlog without parameters to see syntax and examples.

»&#nbsp;&#nbsp; To convert logs to other formats

 


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