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- Welcome
- -------
-
- Thank you for using NetTracker 3.5. We have tried to make NetTracker
- 3.5 as easy to use as possible. We have also tried to incorporate many
- powerful features into this version of NetTracker. However, we always
- welcome new ideas and suggestions to make NetTracker even easier to use
- and more powerful. Please e-mail your suggestions to feedback@sane.com.
- Please read this entire document before installing NetTracker.
-
- Thank you.
-
- The NetTracker Development Team
- Another Sane Solution
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- To install NetTracker follow these simple steps:
-
- 1. Unpack the archive into a temporary directory.
-
- 2. Run the ntinstall program.
-
- 3. Read and accept the license agreement.
-
- 4. When prompted, enter your serial number. You will find your
- serial number located in the upper left hand corner of the inside
- cover of the User's Guide.
-
- 5. When prompted, enter your activation key. You will find your
- activation key in the upper left hand corner of the inside cover
- of the User's Guide or in the email you received with download
- instructions.
-
- 6. When prompted, enter the program directory for NetTracker. The
- program directory will be used to store executable and database
- files. Please make sure that you have plenty of disk space free on
- this partition, as the amount of spaced used by NetTracker is
- directly related to the number of hits your web server receives.
-
- 7. When prompted, enter the HTML directory for NetTracker. This
- directory will be used to store the generated HTML reports, so it
- must be under the document root for your web server.
-
- 8. When prompted, enter the URL that corresponds to the HTML directory
- that you specified in Step #7.
-
- 9. When prompted, enter the CGI-BIN directory for NetTracker. This
- directory will be used to store the CGI-BIN programs that allow you
- to use NetTracker through your web browser, so it must be setup as a
- CGI-BIN directory within your web server software.
-
- 10. When prompted, enter the URL that corresponds to the CGI-BIN
- directory that you specified in Step #9.
-
- 11. Review your options and correct any mistakes.
-
- 12. NetTracker will then finish the installation process and display a
- URL for you to go to begin using NetTracker.
-
- To configure NetTracker follow these simple steps:
-
- NetTracker Standard and Professional:
-
- 1. Open your web browser and pull up the URL from Step 12 of the
- install.
-
- 2. Click on options in the top frame to configure NetTracker.
-
- 3. Click on General in the left frame to setup your report options. You
- must set the "Name of organization:" and "URL of the site being
- analyzed:" options. After you have entered appropriate values click
- Save Options below.
-
- 4. Click on "Log Files" in the left frame to tell NetTracker what log
- files to process. Click Add to add another log file. Select the log
- file type on the left and enter the full path to the log file on the
- right. Next, click Add.
-
- 5. Other options are not required and can be left set to their defaults.
-
- 6. To import your log data and generate a report now click the Update
- button in the top frame.
-
- 7. For additional configuration, see the user's manual or the on-line
- help.
-
- NetTracker Enterprise and ISP:
-
- 1. Open your web browser and pull up the URL from Step 12 of the
- install.
-
- 2. Click on the New Report button.
-
- 3. Enter a short report name for your report and then click enter. You
- will then be presented with the options screen for the report you
- are setting up.
-
- 4. Click on General in the left frame to setup your report options. You
- must set the "Name of organization:" and "URL of the site being
- analyzed:" options. After you have entered appropriate values click
- Save Options below.
-
- 5. Click on "Log Files" in the left frame to tell NetTracker what log
- files to process. Click Add to add another log file. Select the log
- file type on the left and enter the full path to the log file on the
- right. Next, click Add.
-
- 6. Other options are not required and can be left set to their defaults.
-
- 7. To import your log data and generate a report now click the View
- Report button. When the report is displayed click Update.
-
- 8. For additional configuration, see the user's manual or the on-line
- help.
-
- Upgrading From NetTracker 3.0
- -----------------------------
- The following upgrade paths are possible:
-
- NetTracker 3.0 -> NetTracker 3.5
- NetTracker 3.0 Professional -> NetTracker 3.5 Professional
- NetTracker 3.0 Enterprise -> NetTracker 3.5 Enterprise
-
- To upgrade using one of the above upgrade paths:
-
- 1. Make sure no NetTracker reports are currently running.
-
- 2. Backup your current NetTracker installation.
-
- 3. Unpack the archive into a temporary directory.
-
- 4. Run the ntupgrade program.
-
- 5. Read and accept the license agreement.
-
- 6. When prompted enter your serial number and activation key.
-
- 7. When the installation prompts you for the NetTracker program
- directory enter your current NetTracker program directory.
-
- 8. NetTracker will now update your current NetTracker installation.
-
- Note: When upgrading from NetTracker 3.0 to NetTracker 3.5 only
- configuration settings can be imported. Any log data that has previously
- been imported will have to be reimported.
-
- Upgrading between different versions of NetTracker 3.5
- ------------------------------------------------------
- The following upgrade paths are possible:
-
- NetTracker 3.5 -> NetTracker 3.5 Professional
- NetTracker 3.5 -> NetTracker 3.5 Enterprise
- NetTracker 3.5 Professional -> NetTracker 3.5 Enterprise
-
- 1. Make sure no NetTracker reports are currently running.
-
- 2. Backup your current NetTracker installation.
-
- 3. Unpack the archive into a temporary directory.
-
- 4. Run the ntupgrade program.
-
- 5. Read and accept the license agreement.
-
- 6. When prompted enter your serial number and activation key.
-
- 7. When the installation prompts you for the NetTracker program directory
- enter your current NetTracker program directory.
-
- 8. NetTracker will now update your current NetTracker installation.
-
- Note: When upgrading between different versions of NetTracker 3.5 only
- configuration settings and log data is imported. After completing the
- upgrade process your NetTracker reports have to be regenerated.
-
-
- Browser Configuration
- ---------------------
-
- It is recommended that you configure your web browser in the following way:
-
- Netscape Navigator 3.X:
-
- 1. Go to Network Preferences which is under the Options Menu
-
- 2. Click on the cache tab.
-
- 3. Set Verify Documents to every time.
-
- Netscape Communicator 4.X:
-
- 1. Go to Preferences, which is under the Edit menu.
-
- 2. Double-Click on advanced under Category.
-
- 3. Click on cache.
-
- 4. On the right set "document is compared to document on network" to
- "every time".
-
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.X:
-
- 1. Go to Options which is under the View Menu
-
- 2. Click on the advanced tab.
-
- 3. On the advanced page, under temporary internet files click the
- settings button.
-
- 4. Set "check for new versions of stored pages" to "every visit to
- the page".
-
- 5. Click OK
-
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.X:
-
- 1. Go to Internet Options which is under the View Menu
-
- 2. Click on the general tab.
-
- 3. Under temporary internet files click the settings button.
-
- 4. Set "check for new versions of stored pages" to "every visit to the
- page".
-
- 5. Click OK
-
-
- Server Configuration
- --------------------
-
- For optimal performance, it is recommended that you configure your web
- server in the following ways:
-
- Host Name Resolution
-
- We strongly recommend that you configure your web server to resolve host
- names instead of having NetTracker resolve them. For more information on
- this, please consult your web server documentation.
-
- Mime Types
-
- NetTracker can export data, allowing users to import NetTracker reports
- into popular software products such as Microsoft Excel, Access and Word.
- NetTracker uses the .csv file extension when exporting data. For optimal
- performance, it is recommended that you add the mime type
- "application/octet-stream" for the file extension ".csv". For more
- information on this, please consult your web server documentation.
-
- Report Automation
-
- NetTracker comes with a command line utility, nettracker, which can be
- used to automatically generate reports each night. The easiest way to
- configure this option is to add this command to your system's crontab file.
- For example, to update your reports each night at midnight, simply add:
-
- NetTracker Standard and Professional Editions:
-
- "0 0 * * * /path/to/program/directory/nettracker reports -quiet -dir
- /path/to/program/directory/" to your system's crontab file.
-
- NetTracker Enterprise and ISP Editions:
-
- "0 0 * * * /path/to/program/directory/nettracker all -quiet -dir
- /path/to/program/directory/" to your system's crontab file.
-
- Password Protection
-
- NetTracker does not come with any type of built in password protection to
- restrict access from unauthorized individuals. Instead, we leave this task
- up to you to implement using your web server's built in password
- protection.
-
- Command Line Options
- --------------------
-
- NetTracker 3.5 and NetTracker 3.5 Professional:
-
- Usage: nettracker reports [options]
-
- -abort Aborts the report
- -clear Clears the database
- -debug Instructs NetTracker to print debugging information
- -dir <dir> Specify the NetTracker program directory
- -quiet Instructs NetTracker not to print anything
- -recalc Recalculates the report databases from the imported data
- -regen Regenerates the HTML report files
- -reindex Reindexes the database
-
- NetTracker 3.5 Enterprise:
-
- Usage: nettracker <short report name> [options]
-
- -abort Aborts the report
- -clear Clears the database
- -debug Instructs NetTracker to print debugging information
- -dir <dir> Specify the NetTracker program directory
- -quiet Instructs NetTracker not to print anything
- -recalc Recalculates the report databases from the imported data
- -regen Regenerates the HTML report files
- -reindex Reindexes the database
-
- Note: <short report name> can be replaced with "all" to update all
- reports, or "admin" to update only the server wide reports.
-
- Server Specific Notes
- ---------------------
-
- Apache
-
- In order to get Apache to log into NCSA Combined Log Format, you must first
- enable the configurable log format. You will need to edit the
- "Configuration" file in your source code directory, make sure that
- common_log_module, agent_log_module, and referer_log_module are commented
- out, and that config_log_module is enabled. After you recompile Apache you
- will need to make the following changes to your httpd.conf file:
-
- 1. Remove any RefererLog directives.
- 2. Remove any AgentLog directives.
- 3. Add the following LogFormat directive:
-
- LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""
-
- Now you should shut down your server, rotate your old logs, install the new
- binary and start Apache back up.
-
- For the NetTracker export function to work properly it is necessary to edit
- the server mime.types file. The following steps are necessary to
- accomplish this:
-
- 1. Change to the directory in which you installed Apache.
-
- 2. Open the file mime.types with a text editor.
-
- 3. Look for the line:
- application/octet-stream bin
-
- 4. Change it to read:
- application/octet-stream bin csv
-
- 5. Restart Apache.
-
-
- Netscape FastTrack/Enterprise
-
- For the NetTracker export function to work properly it is necessary to edit the
- server mime.types file. The following steps are necessary to accomplish
- this:
-
- 1. Change to the directory in which the configuration files are located for
- the server on which you installed NetTracker.
-
- 2. Open the file mime.types with a text editor.
-
- 3. Look for the line:
- type=application/octet-stream ext=bin
-
- 4. Change it to read:
- type=application/octet-stream ext=bin,csv
-
- 5. Restart the Server.
-
- Logging with Netscape servers:
-
- With Netscape servers we recommend that you log to Netscape Flexible Log
- Format and turn on the following options:
-
- Log client accesses?
- Yes
- Record:
- Domain Names
- Format:
- Only log: (Turn on the following fields)
- ╖ Client hostname
- ╖ Authenticate user name
- ╖ System date
- ╖ Full request
- ╖ Status
- ╖ Content length
- ╖ HTTP header, "referer"
- ╖ HTTP header, "user-agent"
-
- Note:
-
- On both FastTrack and Enterprise servers CGI is NOT setup by default. If
- you have not already done so it will be necessary to setup a cgi-bin
- directory.
-
-
- Lotus Notes 4.6+
-
- By default logging is turned off in Notes. You will need to turn on
- logging in your http server configuration. Under "Enable Logging To:",
- select enabled to the right of "Log Files:"
-
- Lotus Notes logs agent and referrer information to separate files from the
- main log file. For NetTracker to correctly analyze these logs they must
- all be in the same directory and only the access log should be specified
- in the NetTracker options. NetTracker also requires that the agent and
- referrer logs follow the Lotus Notes naming convention.
-
- Since the logging is separated into 3 files, be sure to rotate all three
- files at the same time.
-
-
-