Re: 3rd Party Reporting Tools
- From: "Edward Sullivan" <esullivan@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:45:58 -0500
The log files I used were about 500MB each (weekly logs) and loaded in under
5-10 minutes using WebSpy Standard.
Ed
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From: Quillman Shawn (RBNA/CIT1.1) *
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Subject: [isalist] Re: 3rd Party Reporting Tools
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I'd second this, only I'm using WebSpy Giga which I believe is optimized to
analyze 2+ GB of data. I'm actually evaluating a number of things right now
(based heavily on the products listed on isaserver.org) and WebSpy has made
it to my final two. The other product is not a log analysis package. As
far as analysis of existing logs, WebSpy seems to me to be the way to go.
Very fast (comparatively) and a beautiful, intuitive interface. On a test
run I did a week's worth of logs from 2 servers (7.38 GB of log data) in
just over 8 minutes which comparatively speaking is _screamin'_. Other
products took 1.5+ hours to analyze the same set of logs. I'm running it on
a P4 1.8 with 1GB of memory and with the logs on a local disk. The import
of the logs took a few minutes, but I think a big import of existing logs
would be just a one shot deal. Importing subsequet logs would obviously
take less time. The only thing was it will do that 8 minutes every time you
drill down for detail on a user/workstation/category, etc. But if you don't
have huge logs that time I would assume would be nearly negligible.
-Shawn
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From: Edward Sullivan [mailto:esullivan@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:56 PM
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Subject: [isalist] Re: 3rd Party Reporting Tools
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Try looking at http://www.webspy.com/products/standardsuite.asp . The
reports generated by this product will satisfy the requirements you mention,
plus more. From my experience the product is VERY fast to load log files.
If you try to use the internal DNS client resolver in WebSpy, ISA may see it
as a DOS attack and shutdown ISA services. Make sure you disable DNS
Intrusion before using this feature of WebSpy.
Lastly, it isn't too terrible expensive, and you can get a 30 day eval.
Best of luck!
Ed Sullivan
IT Director
esullivan@xxxxxxx <mailto:esullivan@xxxxxxx>
KMA Direct Communications
Confidential and Proprietary
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From: Sean Faust [mailto:sfaust@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:43 PM
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Subject: [isalist] Re: 3rd Party Reporting Tools
http://www.ISAserver.org
I am looking for a product that will take the exsisting log files and
generate reports that can tell managment where people are going, type of
traffic and if need be who is going where. We never needed this before but
we have a new CEO and he has requested this information.
I have checked out the ISA.org site as I always do. Burstek looks good but
there site has been down all day.
Thanks
Sean Faust
American Red Cross
Atlanta Chapter
Office (404) 575-3123
Cell(404) 909-0778
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-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Sullivan [mailto:esullivan@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:20 PM
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Subject: [isalist] Re: 3rd Party Reporting Tools
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It might help to define "meaningful." What is meaningful to me is not always
meaningful to management which may or may not be relevant to YOUR
management.
Ed Sullivan
IT Director
esullivan@xxxxxxx <mailto:esullivan@xxxxxxx>
KMA Direct Communications
Confidential and Proprietary
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From: PETER PAPE [mailto:papexpjboi@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:17 PM
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Subject: [isalist] Re: 3rd Party Reporting Tools
http://www.ISAserver.org
I've been pretty happy with Surf Control. It also has a content categories
and allows you to configure allowed and prohibited sites. So, it may be
overkill if you're just looking for reporting.
Have you looked at ISA Server.org? Seems to me that there are several
products listed on the site that may meet your needs.
>From: "Sean Faust" <sfaust@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: [isalist] 3rd Party Reporting Tools
>Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 07:07:45 -0400
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>http://www.ISAserver.org
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>
>Good Morning Everyone,
>
>I have been asked to find a 3rd party tool to generate some meaningful
>reports on web usage. Does anyone have any suggestions or can point me to
>some vendors?
>
>TIA
>Sean
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