[mrtg] Re: Monitoring web traffic

[paul beard]

you need some way to extract the two numbers that MRTG plots: I'm 
not sure what you want to track, but some kind of log monitoring 
app that can generate your numbers every five minutes will need to 
fit in there somewhere.

The algorithm I have used (at busy websites: I was working at 
CNN.com when I came up with this so I never had to worry about 
queiscent server logs) was to stat the file and note its size, 
tail the log for some number of seconds (10 or so) and note the 
number of lines and the number of bytes. Divide the bytes by the 
lines to get an average line length and then stat the file again 
to see how many lines you added over those seconds. We were seeing 
5-6000 lines/minute so it was always easy to get a sample.

This is OK for busy websites, but for less dynamic logs you would 
perhaps want to seek to the end, noting the size with stat, 
pause/tail for some seconds and work out the line length as above, 
then seek and stat again.

the key is realizing the mrtg will only plot two values: how it 
gets them is up to you.

for your purposes, you could do this in parallel for access and 
error logs and set up a threshold when errors exceed some 
percentage of accesses.

for number of users connected, how does AIX report its listen 
queue size? you could use the output of a netstat command, I 
suppose, if snmp won't give you this.

M.Salah wrote:

hi all,

we have an Apache web server installed on AIX platform.

we need to monitor the web traffic , no of users connected ,.... 
on each home page hosted on this server.


how it can be done using mrtg ??


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