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Christopher - 10 Mar 2004 22:34 GMT

Hi all,

I'm in the process of looking into how we can analyse the windows media
server log files for our streaming media. We currently run Web Trends for
regular usage analysis but their streaming media analysis doesn't seem to
work right. Other than writing our own system, does anyone know of anything
that's out there that can accomplish this task?

Thanks in advance.

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Dag Stenstad - 11 Mar 2004 10:26 GMT

> I'm in the process of looking into how we can analyse the windows medi
> server log files for our streaming media. We currently run Web Trends fo
> regular usage analysis but their streaming media analysis doesn't seem t
> work right. Other than writing our own system, does anyone know of anythin
> that's out there that can accomplish this task

I'm also looking for this, and I hope to find a opensource/multiplatform tool to do it. I've had some limited success with using AWStats (http://awstats.sf.net) with the following logformat

LogFormat="%host %time2 %other %url %other %other %other %code %other %other %othe
%ua %referer %other %other %other %other %other %other %bytesd %other %method %othe
%other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %othe
%other %other %other %other %other %other %other

Ofcourse this only produces very basic statistics without a lot of detail. It will generate bandwidth-use (Not to be trusted, as it doesn't check if the client played the whole file) on on-demand files, but not live. Also it will not present any statistics on player-versions and other interresting stuff

I've written a message on AWstats forum, hoping that someone might add the extra fields, but hopes are not high

I found a Win32 tool that might work, but I've not tested it: http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/webanalytics.shtm

If anyone has written any tools that can parse WMS9 tools correctly, please reply. :-

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Dag Stenstad

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Christopher - 11 Mar 2004 15:12 GMT

Hey,

I got on the horn with Web Trends Tech Support last night and actually found
that the error in the Reporting Center's ability to parse the WMS logs was
with the WMS itself. The following article outlines that error and the fix.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;275324&Product=wms

I am going to try some preprocessing stuff and try to get the logs to run in
Web Trends. I'll let you know what I find. I'm not sure if Web Trends is
even an option for you or your company but I thought I'd share what I found.

Thanks,
Chris

> > I'm in the process of looking into how we can analyse the windows media
> > server log files for our streaming media. We currently run Web Trends for
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>
> I'm also looking for this, and I hope to find a opensource/multiplatform tool to do it. I've had some limited success with using AWStats

(http://awstats.sf.net) with the following logformat:

> LogFormat="%host %time2 %other %url %other %other %other %code %other %other %other
> %ua %referer %other %other %other %other %other %other %bytesd %other %method %other
> %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other %other
> %other %other %other %other %other %other %other"
>
> Ofcourse this only produces very basic statistics without a lot of detail. It will generate bandwidth-use (Not to be trusted, as it doesn't check if

the client played the whole file) on on-demand files, but not live. Also it
will not present any statistics on player-versions and other interresting
stuff.

> I've written a message on AWstats forum, hoping that someone might add the extra fields, but hopes are not high.
>
> I found a Win32 tool that might work, but I've not tested it: http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/webanalytics.shtml
>
> If anyone has written any tools that can parse WMS9 tools correctly, please reply. :-)

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Peter Burke - 31 Mar 2004 20:22 GMT

I use the free Funnelweb tool - not bad for a freebie. Takes a little brain
power to figure out, but it likes the WMS 9 log format and you get pretty
decent stats from it.

Peter

> Hi all,
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> Thanks in advance.

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Thomas Hodek - 15 Jun 2004 23:07 GMT

>Hi all,
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>
>Thanks in advance.

Hi Christopher,

we are using Sawmill (www.sawmill.net) to analyse our WMS LogFiles.
Works quite good and is not to expensive.

I'm currently testing another system based on rrdTool to analyze the
Logs. http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

Take a look at
http://members.optusnet.com.au/picuspickings/projects.html

Yours sincerely,
Thomas Hodek

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