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I.Project description :
Globalizer is a web server log analysis system based on Webalizer. It was designed to run on a set of web servers to
achieve the following tasks :
- Use the Webalizer program to generate each day statistics on the log files of the web servers included in the system
- Extract each day the generated statistics of each server and send them to a collector server using SOAP
- Feed a database with these collected statistics on the collector server
- Use some dynamic pages on the collector server to generate on the fly Webalizer-like designed web pages in order
to give a summary of all the statistics generated by the different servers included in the system
- Generate each day on the collector server some graphs to be included in the dynamic pages to make the result more human readable
This system proved to be stable as it was successfully tested at CERN
without any problems during 9 months on 12 production servers which are used by a few thousands people and which host
thousands of web sites.
The Globalizer current version is 1.6 for the client package and 1.7 for the
sever one. The latest modifications to this site were done on the 14th of August 2003.
This project is under GPL license so use it and enjoy it !
II.Download & Installation :
The installation packages here are aimed for Intel x86 architectures but, as Globalizer was written using
interpreted languages (Java and Perl) and as there are many binary ports available for Webalizer, this should
be easy to make Globalizer work for other operating systems (MacOs, Solaris) and architectures (Sparc,Mips).
There are two types of installation :
- The client installation for the web servers on which you want the log files statistics to be generated
- The server installation for the collector server which collects the statistics generated on each server
III.Documentation :
IV.Bugs :
Please, send any comment or bug report to Jimmy Dubuisson