[analog-help] Analog not working with webpage

R C icsics48 at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 20 14:22:41 PDT 2006 

My cgi script timeout is already set to 3600 seconds... that should be 
enough right?  Or should I try and increase it a little more?


>From: "Jeremy Wadsack" <jeremy at 7simplemachines.com>
>Reply-To: Support for analog web log analyzer <analog-help at lists.meer.net>
>To: "Support for analog web log analyzer" <analog-help at lists.meer.net>
>Subject: RE: [analog-help] Analog not working with webpage
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:07:34 -0700
>
>Aengus was referring to the event log (event viewer) in windows, not for 
>Analog. Analog can write an error log with ERRFILE command, the location of 
>which would be defined in your config file.
>
>Most Analog users run it from the command-line, not the web. Especially 
>when processing large amounts of data. The log file data is static, so once 
>run you can save the report and view it as much as needed without having to 
>re-process. The form interface for analog is really mostly useful to help 
>guide analysis when you want to make changes and drill into different 
>reports.
>
>Running a gig of logs through analog from the web will probably take some 
>time. If you are the only one doing this (or it's a small group) then you 
>can be aware of the potential delay and configure your server to allow a 
>longer timeout for scripts/cgi. You'll need to look-up how to do that, I 
>don't know off-hand.
>
>--
>
>Jeremy Wadsack
>Seven Simple Machines
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: analog-help-bounces at lists.meer.net [mailto:analog-help-
> > bounces at lists.meer.net] On Behalf Of R C
> > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:23 PM
> > To: analog-help at lists.meer.net
> > Subject: Re: [analog-help] Analog not working with webpage
> >
> > I can't find the analog event/error log, where is it located?
> > As I'm looking at the logfiles of the server, it seems there are 4-5
> > logfiles for each month.
> > Each log is anywhere from about 90-250MB.
> > In my request on the web form, I am asking for stats for an entire month
> > (June 2006) - which would equal to about a gig of log files that it 
>would
> > have to go through.
> > Could that be the problem?  But this problem only appeared recently and
> > I"m
> > pretty sure that other users have been running monthly stats like that
> > previously.
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "Aengus" <analog at eircom.net>
> > >Reply-To: Support for analog web log analyzer <analog-
> > help at lists.meer.net>
> > >To: "Support for analog web log analyzer" <analog-help at lists.meer.net>
> > >Subject: Re: [analog-help] Analog not working with webpage
> > >Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:08:17 -0400
> > >
> > >On Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:45 PM [EDT],
> > >R C <icsics48 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Thanks for your response Aengus.  I asked one of my coworkers and he
> > >>says we are still using IIS 5.0, and I am using Analog 5.21.
> > >>
> > >>What is considered a "big" logfile?
> > >
> > >I can process a gigabyte logfile in under a minute on my desktop. So
> > >gigabyte sized logfiles could time out, especially if the server is
> > already
> > >moderately busy doing other work. But logfiles upto hundreds of 
>megabytes
> > >shouldn't time out on moderate hardware.
> > >
> > >Anlgform.pl has worked fine for people on IIS5. The obvious questions 
>for
> > >troubleshooting anlgform are - do other perl scripts work okay? Does it
> > >work with a small logfile? Can you tell from CPU utilization if Analog 
>is
> > >even running (Analog will try to use all avaiabe CPU, so if it runs, 
>you
> > >should be able to tell by monitoring CPU utilisation). And what do the
> > >server logs say (the event og and the IIS web log - what status code 
>does
> > >the request return?).
> > >
> > >Aengus
> > >
> > >>
> > >>>From: "Aengus" <analog at eircom.net>
> > >>>Reply-To: Support for analog web log analyzer
> > >>><analog-help at lists.meer.net> To: "Support for analog web log
> > >>>analyzer" <analog-help at lists.meer.net> Subject: Re: [analog-help]
> > >>>Analog not working with webpage Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:07:41 -0400
> > >>>
> > >>>On Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:12 PM [EDT],
> > >>>R C <icsics48 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>The problem I'm having is that when I run the analog script from my
> > >>>>webpage with the search options, it either takes so long that it
> > >>>>displays "Page not found" with analog.pl being the page its on, or
> > >>>>it has a blank page with the page still being the original stats
> > >>>>page that I submitted.  Any ideas as to what's wrong with my
> > >>>>instance of analog?
> > >>>
> > >>>Unless you have very large logfiles, the only thing that normally
> > >>>causes Analog to run slowly is DNS lookups. But DNS lookups are
> > >>>effectively disabled in the form interface, so it's unlikely that
> > >>>that's the problem. You don't mention what web server you are 
>running,
> > >>>but there were a
> > >>>number of reports of difficulties running the form interface on IIS6
> > >>>last year, and there was ony one report of someone successfully
> > >>>tweaking the .pl script to get consistent output -
> > >>>http://lists.meer.net/pipermail/analog-help/2005-July/018575.html. I
> > >>>don't recall anyone following up on that report.
> > >>>
> > >>>Aengus
> > >>>
> > 
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