On Jan 24, 2008 10:52 AM, James Wade <user-659655b2ea05@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hello All,
I'd like to be able to graph the number of users
connecting to a web-site. I was wondering if any one
had any good ideas or if something had already been
written.
Basically, I want to track the number of users connecting
to a web-site by looking at the log-file, and I'd like to graph
it.
The log-file looks like this:
192.168.0.22 - user07 [20/Aug/2007:08:49:49 -0500] "GET
/htdocs/info/wd.html
So, it shows all the web pages the user accesses. What I really want to
know
is how many users are currently connecting through to the web-site.
I could cat the log file out every minute, grab the username, do a sort
unique
based on the IP address and Username, then do a count, and graph it. But
I don't know that it would be very accurate. The logfile rotates every
2mb,
so I'd have to do a grep of all the files based on date and time, then do
a sort on IP address and Username.
I also want to put some checks in, for example, same username with
more than one IP address, reverse lookup of the IP based on location,
ie….our users should only be in the U.S., and not somewhere else.
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