Analog

What is Analog ?

Stephen Turner's Analog is a program which analyses logfiles from WWW servers. It works on almost any operating system. It is designed to be fast and to produce attractive statistics. It's free software.
The official homepage of Analog will tell you more about this in great detail. Just follow this external link.

For MPE/iX such tools become more and more important in the HP e3000 world. So I ported this freeware to MPE/iX and named it Analog/iX in accordance to the other ported S/W like Samba/iX or Apache/iX or Ploticus/iX or Tidy/iX - for YOUR pleasure!

Download

Two files have been prepared for a download of the compiled Analog/iX version 5.01:

• anlg-5.01.tar.Z
• anlg-5.01d.tar.Z

• directory /usr/local/analog/analog-5.01/ containing
  • the ported program analog,
  • a base configuration file analog.cfg and
  • the subdirectory lang/ containing language support files (like German, French, Japanese, ...)

• directory htdocs/analog/ containing
  • a base frameset to execute Analog/iX (top), to link the documentation (left) and to show the actual statistics (right).
    This should be modified to your needs; especially if you do not want that everbody could actually execute Analog (top frame).
  • all needed images are in images/.
  • the author's original "readme" documentation in docs.
  • two files in /APACHE/PUB/cgi-bin/ named analog.sh and analog.pl.
    • analog.sh is a very basic Posix script to execute Analog/iX out of your browser, and
    • analog.pl is a Perl/iX script to be executed out of a html-formular to select some report options.
      This script requires HP e3000 Perl/iX, of course.

 this link to download the base program file

 this link to download the supporting Web files

Installation

1. Ensure that your System Manager MANAGER.SYS created under /usr/local a directory named analog/. Access should be granted and restricted to the AM of the Web account, e.g. MGR.APACHE, mod 750, e.g.
   • mkdir /usr/local/analog/
   • chown MGR.APACHE:APACHE /usr/local/analog
   • (optional): chmod 750 /usr/local/analog
2. Logon as Web Admin (AM user).
3. Download the compressed tar file(s) to your HPe3000 in binary format.
4. Invoke the Posix shell (SH.HPBIN.SYS).
5. Extract the program files using
   tar zxvfop anlg-5.01.tar.Z
   The files will be installed in /usr/local/analog/analog-5.01.
6. Change the current directory to the one before htdocs/.
   E.g. if you prefer to keep your Web docs under /WEB/PUB/htdocs execute a
   cd /WEB/PUB
7. Extract the web files using
   tar zxvfop anlg-5.01d.tar.Z
   The files will be installed in htdocs/analog/ and /APACHE/PUB/cgi-bin/.
8. Now adopt the /usr/local/analog/analog-5.01/analog.cfg file for your needs.
   You may add a value for LANGUAGE (if not ENGLISH, the default), and change HOSTNAME and CHARTDIR rsp. LOCALCHARTDIR.
   Especially check the values for LOGFILE and OUTFILE. These settings depend on your Apache/iX setup. For all details on the meaning of analog.cfg parameters see the documentation.
9. Finally, you may change htdocs/analog/frame_top.html, especially if you do not have Perl/iX or you do not want that everybody can run Analog/iX out of any Browser.
10. READY! You may leave the shell now.
11. And now open your Browser with the URL http://<your HP e3000 www server>/analog/ and you will see the default frame.
    This contains:
    • The header with the option to run Analog/iX now or to use a form to select different report options.
    • The left frame contains the chapters of the documentation.
    • The right frame contains ... nothing! So don't be confused on the error you'll see. This frame will be automatically filled with your actual web statistics when you run Analog/iX the 1^st time.
      If you already had an older version you will see the last report created from this version.

Benefit for HPe3000

Some News:

• Analog and ReportMagic are available for PCs (Win / Mac).
  See http://www.analog.cx and http://www.reportmagic.org
• So, basically, there is no need to port this S/W to HP-MPE ...

• you will need to transfer BIG Apache logfiles to your PC!

• ReportMagic's input file is small!
  An example: Apache LogFiles 5,968 kb, ReportMagic Input File 16 kb !

• Install Analog/iX on your HP e3000.
  The Package available here in version 5.01 (the current version is 5.22)
• Install ReportMagic on your PC
  This Package is available at http://www.reportmagic.org/download.html in current version 2.13.
• Run Analog/iX on the HP e3000 to create the input file for ReportMagic.
  Just change the analog.cfg file this way:

     # ReportMagic
       OUTPUT COMPUTER             => this is the magic line!
       OUTFILE /APACHE/report.dat  => or another place/filename on your HP e3000
  
  

  and run it.
• Transfer the small report.dat file to your PC via FTP or using Samba.
• Run ReportMagic on this file on your PC.
• Enjoy your Web statistics on your PC.
• Optional: Transfer back the report files (for above example: 524 kb) to your HP e3000 Web Server.

• A short detailed description on Web Server Log File Analysis using these tools on your PC
  See  this page.
• an Analog Configurator.
  See  this page.
• in preparation: a ReportMagic Configurator.

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