Windows NT statistics

[Thomas Dowling]

I won't dispute the Compaq recommendation except to point out that it
doesn't address the original question.  Offlist, Katherine told me that she
is trying to log the activities of several workstations with a LAN
connection to an NT server.  The workstations access various Web servers
around the Internet and run various CD-ROM products on the LAN.

There may be metering applications available for CD-ROM products running on
the server.  However, the workstations do not touch the NT server for Web
connections to other sites.  The exception to this is if the NT server is
also running as a proxy for the workstations, in which case the proxy logs
will track the workstations' access.

Microsoft's IIS Web server does come with a version of Crystal Reports.  I
have not found that a particularly easy program to work with, but haven't
put much time into it.  We run wusage; other widely used log analysis
programs have been discussed on the list before and will show up in the
archives at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: TMGB <bennettt at am.appstate.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Monday, February 02, 1998 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Windows NT statistics


>Normally from what I've seen is that the software to access CDs gives
>options metering and logging.  WEB Server software keeps logs which can be
>parsed by programs like webtrends for various statistical information.  I
>am running Netscape Enterprise Server (WEB server software) on an Alpha
>NT.  If I had the option to choose again I would choose an Intel based NT
>Server from Compaq.  Last reports showed that less percent of processor
>time is used on Compaq with NT as compared to other hardware choices.
>There is also more software available for Intel NT servers.  If you use
>Microsoft's server programs, there might be some built in capabilities for
>stats, but I would think that is still built upon log files.
>
>Thomas
>
>Katherine Kendall wrote:
>
>> Does Windows NT server software keep statistics on use.  I'm thinking
>> particularly of measuring Internet access and CD-ROM databases access.
>> This is for a proposed network and all our Windows NT server books are
>> OUT!  Thanks.
>>
>> Kathy Kendall
>> mailto:kk at harborcom.net
>
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