[ILUG] Web Access Monitoring

[Roy White]

Folks,

	Thanks for all your help, I had successfully explained to PHB about
not being able to see how much time being spent on a website. And was well
on my way to seting up squid with a nice logger to produce the reports, when
I found out that we can't use a proxy (due to issues with some servies we
use), so now I am going to look for a linux solution that put a box into
promiscuous mode and listens for port 80 requests and get the logs from
there, anybody know of such a solution? or even if this is a viable
solution.

Best Regards

	Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: anton.mckee at broadcom.ie [mailto:anton.mckee at broadcom.ie]
Sent: 08 February 2001 14:27
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Web Access Monitoring



The only thing I can think of that  *might* give you a *rough* indication of
how long a user is on your site is by using apache to track visitors. You
can set up apache to send a cookie  and then you will be able to see the
visitor and their path through the site. The use something like webtrends to
analyze the logs.

Then you can use squid to track you employees and apache to track visitors.
And get a pretty good picture of what is going on.

But one drawback, not everyone likes cookies, plus as well if you site is
sending cookies from something else then they may be lost if you have more
that four (I  think with N.Scape)

Not too sure on that last one.

Anyhow that's all I can think of.

Aj
-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Roy
White
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:49 PM
To: 'Donncha O Caoimh'; ILUG
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Web Access Monitoring


Thanks guy's (Donncha, John, Sean, Proinnsias, Kenn, Anton) for all your
answers, this is exactly the stuff I need to try and stop this nonsense :-)

once again, much appreciated.

-Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: Donncha O Caoimh [mailto:donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com]
Sent: 08 February 2001 13:27
To: Roy White; ILUG
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Web Access Monitoring


Think about what you're asking in another way.. 

how long does a user perform a non-action?

Unless they perform another action that affects a monitoring device you
can't tell anything about their activity. Supposing I went to
slashdot.org and then, because I'm using a window manager that has
multiple desktops, I went to another desktop, where I spent several
hours on the company billing system.. yet a monitoring tool would think
I was lazing around on slashdot..

ho hum.. perfect example here! Bet you thought I was slow getting back
to you, but I had a meeting in between writing the above paragraph and
this one ;)

Donncha.


Roy White wrote:
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
>         We are using static ip addr's, how about some of the commercial
> packages can they do it, i.e. how long someone spent ata website?
> 
> Regards
> 
>         Roy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donncha O Caoimh [mailto:donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com]
> Sent: 08 February 2001 12:28

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