[AG-TECH] AG usage log analysis

[Eric Olson]

Hi Jennifer,
There is a log file called ServerUsage.csv that is generated in the Logs
directory of the user running the servers.
(windows: Doc&Settings\<user>\Application Data\AccessGrid\Logs)
(linux/unix: ~/.AccessGrid/Logs)

It is written in comma-delimited format so it can be easily opened by any
program like Excel, OpenOffice Calc, or your own custom tool.
The events currently logged in there are Enter, Exit, and RemoveUser.

Enter and RemoveUser are the main log events that show if a user is in a
venue or not.  Exit only tells you when the user chose to leave the room
by clicking to change venues or closing the venueclient.  RemoveUser shows
when the server removes the user -- either because the user asked to Exit,
or for some other reason such a connection timeout.

Eric


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Revisiting an old question I know we've kicked around before . . .
>
> Some organizations would benefit from being able to automatically
> monitor usage of their venue server (ie, "10 users were simultaneously
> connected to the Ramone Room for 90 minutes this afternoon").
>
> Mike Miller and I were just chatting in the jabber meadow, and he was
> pointing out that there are a number of readily-available open source
> logging tools, that perhaps could be customized to work with the Venue
> Server to log server events and analyse the data to create this information.
>
> Is anybody working in this area? Anybody have ideas, or tools in the works?
>
> - Jennifer
>
>