The LogDoor Real-time Server Monitor
With LogDoor, as a Macintosh server administrator, you get the real-time, "actionable" information you need to manage your server. Plus your customers get real-time, individualized log files and statistics. LogDoor lets you monitor current server activity to easily locate and repair problems -- like broken HTML links or inaccessible files -- in real time, not hours, days or weeks later when you might routinely process the server's log file. Whether your Web server hosts hundreds of sites across multiple domains or only a few sites on one domain, LogDoor lets you immediately notice and locate:
- Broken links in Web pages on your server
- Bad links to your sites in Web pages elsewhere on the Internet
- Pages which are not readable by the Web server
- Unexpectedly popular sites that may be candidates for offloading to single-use or faster servers
- Sites that should be popular but aren't, potentially indicating reachability problems
- Drastic increases in activity to a site, indicating a mention or link to that site from elsewhere
And if you run an AppleShare IP file server, in conjunction with AFP Logger, LogDoor lets you:
- Keep track of who's connecting to the server and how often
- Notice if any unauthorized accesses to the server are attempted
- Maintain an audit trail of accesses
- Determine which files are accessed the most
- Notice if errors are occurring on accesses to the server
If you use DoorStop firewall software, with LogDoor you can:
- Notice if access is attempted to blocked ports
- Notice if access is attempted from blocked client IP addresses
- Analyze connections on a port-by-port (service-by-service) basis
- On multihomed servers, analyze connetions based on server IP address
View overall server activity: LogDoor lets you see the result of
every access to your server as it happens, including whether the access
resulted in an error or not. With LogDoor, you see what's happening with your server in
real-time. You see potential problems before they become critical and you have
the data to track them to their source.
View site-by-site server activity: LogDoor's display includes entries on a site-by-site basis. Clicking on one of the site entries lets you review that site's history and recent activity. In addition, LogDoor lets you sort entries by site name, hits, visits, bytes transferred or errors. This quick yet powerful analysis feature lets you isolate the most critical sites for priority attention or further analysis.
Make available site-by-site log files and summaries: LogDoor automatically creates log files and summaries for each top-level site on your server, which you can then make available over the Web to site owners. Give your customers remote access to up-to-the-minute hit information on their sites day or night - without adding to your workload.
Drastic reduction in log post-processing time: LogDoor's output log files are compatible with the standard WebSTAR log file format, so LogDoor logs can be fed into any WebSTAR log post-processor. By creating output log files for individual sites, LogDoor can dramatically reduce the time it takes to generate the periodic reports customers expect. Rather than run a log post-processor multiple times (once for each customer site) against the huge server log file, LogDoor lets you run the post-processor against the much smaller individual site logs.
Use AppleScript to perform any level of customization: LogDoor can be configured to periodically run an AppleScript for any desired sites. That AppleScript can be used to customize each site's reporting detail as desired, and even to invoke a log post-processor for that site.
LogDoor Features:
- Live statistics window summarizes accesses on a site-by-site or user-by-user* basis.
- Outputs real-time, site-by-site or user-by-user* log files plus HTML and tab-delimited text summary reports.
- Outputs overall HTML and tab-delimited summary reports. Overall HTML report includes links to all site-specific HTML summaries.
- Output can be placed anywhere on your Web server for easy Web-based distribution.
- Processes Web server, AFP (AppleShare IP), DoorStop and HomeDoor logs.
- Three processing modes: real-time background (least CPU usage), real-time straight-through (fastest) and scheduled operation (specific time of day).
- Standalone application (68K or PowerPC). Runs in parallel with your server.
*User-specific analysis requires AFP log file.
Features and Benefits
- Real-time operation - up-to-the minute site access information, immediate problem indication
- Live statistics window - at-a-glance insights into the operation of your Web server, "actionable" information.
- Site-by-site log files and summary reports - drastically reduce log post-processing time and provide real-time site-specific information.
- Site-by-site processing options - create the exact reports desired for each specific site, with any level of detail.
- AppleScript integration - provides additional levels of customizability.
- Web-accessible output - instant, automatic distribution of information to site owners, regardless of where they are or what platform they're using.
- Multiple scheduling options - minimize the effect on server performance while maximizing the availability of information.
- Multi-task operation - analyze multiple sites or sub-sites in parallel
- Compatibility with the WebSTAR log format - output logs can be analyzed by any WebSTAR log post-processor.
- AFP log processing - see details of what's happening on your AppleShare IP file server, as it happens.
- DoorStop log processing - notice security issues in a timely fashion
Requirements:
- Web server supporting the WebSTAR log format, such as WebSTAR or AppleShare IP, or
- AppleShare IP 5.0.2 or later file server and AFP Logger 1.0 or later, or
- DoorStop 1.0.1 or later
- System 7.5.3 or later
- 1MB of application RAM
- Web browser supporting tables to view summary reports
Ordering information:
- Product details, pricing, users' guide and evaluation version available at http://www.opendoor.com/logdoor/
- Secure order form available at http://www.opendoor.com/order.html
- Orders accepted via Web, e-mail, fax and phone
- VISA, MasterCard, American Express
- Checks and corporate PO's by special request
- Product distributed via the Web or AppleShare
Open Door Networks, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1996-98, Open Door Networks, Inc. LogDoor, AFP Logger, DoorStop and HomeDoor are trademarks of Open Door Networks, Inc. All other products are trademarks of their respective companies.