Processing EZ Proxy Logs and IIS Web Server Logs with Sawmill Professional

Posted by Derrick on January 30, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Processing EZ Proxy logs and IIS Web Server logs with Sawmill Professional is something that many individuals, organizations, and companies can do.  Recently I taught a 1-Day On-site Sawmill Professional Training at the University of Central Florida.  There organization wanted to take advantage of Sawmill Professional’s capabilities for processing various types of logs and their need to process EZ Proxy Logs and IIS Web Server logs was a high priority. Class attendees were taught how to create profiles for EZ Proxy logs and IIS Web Server logs. The great benefit of Sawmill Professional is it makes processing these log type very easy. When users create a profile for EZ Proxy logs or IIS Web Server logs, Sawmill will help guide the user by providing options for choosing the correct log type. Once the profile is created a database will be built and then users can dive into report creation.

In addition to learning how to process EZ Proxy logs and IIS Web Server logs, students also learned how to also process Wowza Media Server Pro logs, Windows Firewall logs, Filezilla FTP Server logs, and Apache Server Logs.  Attendees were able to learn how to take advantage of Sawmill Professional for creating custom reports for gathering visitor demographics, web page views, troubleshooting errors, videos analytics, FTP server info and other items

In the training students also learned techniques such as:

• Creating Macros for Repetitive Tasks and Reports
• Creating Customized Single Page Reports
• Customizing Navigation within Reports
• Exporting Report Tables to .CSV files
• Scheduling Repetitive Tasks
• Creating Profiles from logs on an FTP Server
• How to Utilize Filters
• Setting up DNS for Resolving Domain Names
• Creating User Accounts for Remote Log-in
• Customizing Statistics and Manager Roles for Users

Call Freeman Compression Inc. 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com if you’d like to attend one of our Sawmill Professional Training classes. You’ll learn how to take advantage of using Sawmill Professional for processing EZ Proxy logs, IIS Web Server logs, Wowza Media Server Pro logs, Windows Firewall logs, Filezilla FTP Server logs, or Apache Server Logs. You can attend one of on-line classes or attend one of our trainings in Orlando. You can also arrange for an on-site training at your location.

Processing FileZilla FTP Logs with Sawmill Professional

Posted by Derrick on December 8, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Processing FileZilla FTP Logs with Sawmill Professional can be very beneficial.  Not only is Samwill Professional a great tool for processing log files for streaming servers and web servers but it works well for processing FTP logs.  How does Sawmill help you in this case?  If you have a scenario where you would like to monitor the videos that your clients have downloaded, Sawmill  can assist you.  First you’ll to need to download the FileZilla logs from your FTP Server.

OK, Let’s get started.  Launch Sawmill Professional and log into the application.  First, let’s create a Profile for FileZilla by clicking the Create New Profile button.

When the dialog window appears you’ll see an option to select a file or folder of files.  Next, click the Browse button.

When the option comes up to select your file, click on the folder that the FileZilla log files are in.  Once you select your folder click the OK button.

When you get back to the log source selection section click the Next button.

Now Sawmill will try to detect the Log Format type you’re processing.

When the detecting process completes select your log type

At the next page you see type in your Profile into the text box.  You can call your Profile name FileZilla logs.

Next, Click the Finish button.

When the next screen appears,  click on the link that displays Process Data & View Reports.

Once you click the Process Data & View Reports link, Sawmill will start creating your database.

After your database is complete click the Log Details link in the Menu Bar to the left.

You can see now that the database shows the files that have been downloaded designated as RETR in the column to the far right.  The downloaded video name is in the Log Details overview as well as the user name of the person that logged into retrieve the file.

Now, this is just one of the items that you can perform in Sawmill.  To learn more advanced techniques such as Scheduling Log Processing, Working with Roles, Resolving Domains, attend on our 1-day Sawmill Professional training classes.