Showing posts with label sarg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sarg. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Internet Monitoring With SARG and Squid On Windows

SARG aka Squid Analysis Report Generator is a nice little tool that analyses Squids access.log files and creates a management friendly report along with graph.

This guide is for someone who have already configured SARG on Linux box.
  1. Install Squid on Windows. You can follow this post squid-on-windows
  2. SARG port for windows is available in the SARG website itself SARG. Or download it by clicking here.
  3. Unzip it in C:sarg
  4. Edit sarg.conf file inside c:sargetc
    1. Edit access_log
    2. graph option
    3. output_dir where your web server can be pointed.
    4. Others that you think is important. This is very simple file with all needed description.
  5. Make your scheduled task to run SARG and rotate Squid log files or restart Squid from services.msc .
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

SARG Squid Analysis Report Generator

SARG - Squid Analysis Report Generator is a tool that allow you to view "where" your users are going to on the Internet.

Its very useful tool which generates graphical and tabular report from your access.log file in a web browser.






You can get sarg from http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php
Extract it to your src folder, configure it and install it.

The configuration file is sarg.conf. You really dont need to change that file as most of the option can be passed through command line parameters. One thing you must make sure is that the output directory is your web accessible directory. The configuration file is pretty simple. Also make sure that it gets your right access.log file.
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