[Zope] Web stats

[Bill Anderson]

On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 08:57, Fritz Mesedilla wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I hope you can help me with this. This is for our marketing team.
> How do you get the webstats for a clustered server architecture?
> 
> It's like this, we have Apache running as front-end for Zope. These are
> identical servers being load balanced. I thought for the easiest way,
> multiply the stats of one server by the total number of servers since they
> are load balanced. I laughed, they didn't. I guess they didn't understand
> it. :)
> 
> Anyway, someone suggested using cluster trends. But that means opening an
> ftp port on every clustered server which means insecurity.
> 
> Is there another way? Has anyone created their own stats script for apache
> or similar webservers? Something like hitbox? We used webalizer before. But
> since the load balancing, I cannot accurately get the stats for the
> websites.
> 

Cat the respective access_log files together and run webalizer against
the resulting data?

This assumes you mean there are multiple apache servers.

If you are running ZEO behind a single apache, just the logs from the
apache server will do.

Bill

PS, please don't X-post like that.