Re: [cobalt-users] musita - Traffic monitoring for the RaQ

["Mike Fritsch" <mfritsch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks good, do you know when the RaQ3 version will be released?

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From: manitu <manitu@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 3:00 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] musita - Traffic monitoring for the RaQ


> Hello all,
>
> our program "musita" has been mentioned in this list and we saw that there
> was some interest in it. One of the readers of the thread in which musita
> was mentioned recommended to open a new thread for this. We hope that you
> all don't mind us to post commercial stuff to this list. If you do, please
> let us know.
>
> We do not know if all readers did follow the other thread so we would like
> to introduce our program musita here again. musita stands for "Multi Site
> Traffic Analyzer". musita is a traffic monitoring program currently only
> available for the Cobalt RaQ2, a RaQ3 version follows soon.
>
> musita is intended only for the server administrator in order to see how
> much traffic each customer is consuming / has consumed. musita does
produce
> easy-to-use html stats which are showing the traffic each virtual site has
> produced. The html stats are very extensive. musita does provide
statistics
> for multiple periods, such as for day, for week, for month and for year.
>
> At any time, you can see the stats for any period, e.g. today you could
see
> the stats for April, 3rd, or for the week from May, 1st to 6st. All stats
> are linked logically so that you can go from the current month to the
> respective weeks or to the respective days. musita does also provide a
quick
> overview page which shows you the traffic within the last two days and the
> last two months so that you can quickly check if your current traffic goes
> above your average.
>
> All html stats show you a table of all sites that have been accessed
within
> the selected period. The table shows you the name of the site, the amount
of
> traffic and the number of hits of that site. For each period you can see
the
> report (the table) sorted by traffic and alphabetically sorted by the site
> name.
>
> The sort type "by traffic" lets you easily find out which of your
customers
> are consuming the most of your traffic which can help you to lower your
> traffic :-) The tables let you directly jump to the respective site so
that
> you can check what type of site (private, commercial or adult) your
> customers have.
>
> musita does update the stats four times each day. It is NOT a permanent
> background task, it is run by the cron daemon and then analyzes the log
file
> and creates the stats. The log file analyzation and html generation does
not
> consume an amount of time or mem worht menitioning. Even for large log
> files, the program does only run for some seconds to do its whole task.
>
> Each time musita generates the stats, it will send you an email to
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which shows you the traffic which has been
> produced within the last six hours. If you are checking your admin email
> account regularly, you can easily prevent huge amounts of traffic, e.g. by
> DOD attacks.
>
> Currently, musita only monitors web traffic which should be the most part
of
> your traffic (okay, if you are trying to open an email service such as
> Hotmail or if your customers extensively use anonymous ftp, this could be
> wrong :-) We are planning to extend musita to also monitor ftp and mail
> traffic. Also musita is currently only available for the RaQ2, but we are
> working on the RaQ3 version which should be available very soon.
>
> musita is very easy to install. We provide a PKG file which can be
installed
> via the GUI of the RaQ2. The only thing you have to do manually, is to
> unlock your version with a special kind of serial number (only takes 10
> seconds).
>
> The html stats will be available via http://host.yourserver.com/musita.
The
> stats are protected by your admin password (realized in the same way as
the
> cobalt GUI does its access control).
>
> musita does also check web traffic if the websites are called by the ip
> address instead of by the domain name. In this case, musita does resolve
the
> ip address to the respective domain name and does count the traffic to the
> respective site. It monitors all kind of domains, under each tld (com,
net,
> org, de, at, ch, whatever you want). It also monitors domain up to any
> level, such as www.support.customer.company.com.
>
> For all advanced users: If you have configured some domains manually in
your
> http.conf or any included conf file, you don't have to worry. musita does
> also monitor sites that have not been configured by the cobalt gui. It
will
> monitor each domain that was served by the apache daemon and will include
it
> into the stats.
>
> We know that traffic monitoring on the raq was a problem. That was the
> reason why we have developed musita. It is intended both for beginners and
> for advanced users.
>
> We hope that this introduction was not too long. If there are any further
> questions, please feel free to ask. We will answer all questions. If the
> other readers don't mind, you can ask them here in the list.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Manuel Schmitt
>
>
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