[hobbit] Tracking Users -- Ideas

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Jan 24, 2008 10:52 AM, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com> wrote:

>  Hello All,
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> I'd like to be able to graph the number of users
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> connecting to a web-site. I was wondering if any one
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> had any good ideas or if something had already been
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> written.
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> Basically, I want to track the number of users connecting
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> to a web-site by looking at the log-file, and I'd like to graph
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> it.
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> The log-file looks like this:
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> 192.168.0.22 - user07 [20/Aug/2007:08:49:49 -0500] "GET
> /htdocs/info/wd.html
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>  So, it shows all the web pages the user accesses. What I really want to
> know
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> is how many users are currently connecting through to the web-site.
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> I could cat the log file out every minute, grab the username, do a sort
> unique
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> based on the IP address and Username, then do a count, and graph it. But
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> I don't know that it would be very accurate. The logfile rotates every
> 2mb,
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> so I'd have to do a grep of all the files based on date and time, then do
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> a sort on IP address and Username.
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> I also want to put some checks in, for example, same username with
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> more than one IP address, reverse lookup of the IP based on location,
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> ie….our users should only be in the U.S., and not somewhere else.
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Dunno if/how it could be integrated into Hobbit, but I think Webalizer (
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/) does exactly what you're looking for.

Ralph Mitchell
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