Status Reports

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Please choose from the following questions.

If you can't find your question, please let us know and we'll answer it in e-mail and add it to the FAQ.

1. Can I monitor or see the MBs that have been accessed?
2. Can I password protect my status reports?
3. Is it possibly to get the statistics from the 15th of last month?
4. Can I set up my account so a daily log is emailed to me?
5. Can I change the output of theaccess_log file type to .gz, .log, .txt?
6. Could you tell me what the access_log is and let me know if we have access to it? Is this the same as the log.html ?
7. Is there a way I can accumulate my access logs rather than having them turned over every day?

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Can I monitor or see the MBs that have been accessed?

Please see:

http://www.yourdomain.com/reports/log.html

Please replace where it says "yourdomain" with your actual domain name.

Can I password protect my status reports?

Yes. You can do that using the .htaccess method of limiting access.

Is it possibly to get the statistics from the 15th of last month?

The statistics are reset at the same time as the logs, on the 1st and 15th. After the logs are processed for billing information they are deleted. The reason the logs are reset is because they grow to be several gigabytes in size.

Can I set up my account so a daily log is emailed to me?

Yes with the propper script and using crontab.

Can I change the output of theaccess_log file type to .gz, .log, .txt?

To the best of our knowledge, webtrends will only generate real-time stats on a machine that it can run as a "background" task. NT is such a case.. Web trends currently does not run under the UNIX environment.

You can change the name of the log to have any extension that you would like. This does require knowledge of script writing (shell,C, perl, etc), and "telnetting" into the server.

Could you tell me what the access_log is and let me know if we have access to it? Is this the same as the log.html ?

The access_log files contain all of the information from which the activity reports are generated. In general, only programmers need to know where they are because the information is in a raw format.

Is there a way I can accumulate my access logs rather than having them turned over every day?

Yes. In your home directory create an empty file called:

access_log

Your logfile will be rolled into this every night when the logs are processed.

To create the file telnet to the server and issue the command:

touch access_log

This will create an empty file.

Because the access_log file is included in you disk space allocation, you should check its size from time to time. You will be responsible for keeping your access_log file at a manageable size.

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