[analog-help] combination of request and daily / hourly report?

[Aengus]

On Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:12 PM [EDT],
Joe Park <joe.park at interpolls-inc.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to generate a report that's a combination of request
> report and daily (or hourly) report?  Basically, I'm trying to
> generate a request report that's divided in daily (or hourly) time
> frame -- or inversely, daily (or hourly) report where it's request
> number are divided into request for different files.
>
>> From what I read on user manual, this is not possible with analog?

This is one of the FAQs:
http://analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq128
 Can I find out which files each referrer pointed to?
 or Can I find out which files each host has read?
 or Can I find out which hosts have read each file?
 or Can I find out the number of hosts visiting on each day?
 or lots of similar questions.

 There are lots of questions like this. They all want analog to
 cross-reference two sorts of item (e.g. files and referrers in the
 first example above, or hosts and dates in the last).
 The solution is to use the *INCLUDE commands. For example, to find out
 which files a particular referrer pointed to, restrict the analysis to
 just the referrer you're interested in with the REFINCLUDE command.
 The Request Report will then just list the files reached from that
 referrer. Similarly, if you're interested in a particular time period,
 you can focus on just that time by using the FROM and TO commands.
 You do have to run analog once for each report generated. So for the
 example of referrers, you would have to run it once for each referrer
 you're interested in. Of course, it would be useful to be able to
 cross-refererence all the files and referrers at once. But it is
 fundamental to analog's speed and minimal memory requirement that
 it only records statistics for each type of item individually, and
 doesn't record enough information to cross-reference them afterwards.

In summary, you can run Analog multiple times to create hourly reports, and 
concatenate them, but Analog won't do it automatically.

Aengus