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

["manitu" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry all, we have not sent this posting multiple times. We apologize if you
also get this posting more than one time, but we cannot say why this
happens.

Best regards,
Manuel Schmitt



----- Original Message -----
From: manitu <manitu@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 8:35 PM
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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