Posted by Derrick on December 8, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
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.
Posted by Derrick on October 21, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Orlando, Florida – October 21, 2009 – Freeman Compression Inc. today announced that it will be providing Episode Encoder, Wirecast and Sawmill Professional Training in six U.S. cities from December 2009 through May 2010. The Episode Encoder and Wirecast portion of the training is sponsored by Telestream and the Sawmill Professional portion is sponsored by Flowerfire. The full day training sessions will take place in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Orlando. Free instruction will be provided on video compression using Telestream Episode Encoder Pro, live streaming media production using Telestream Wirecast and log files analytics for streaming servers and other devices using Flowerfire Sawmill Professional.
The training sessions will be led by Derrick Freeman, Instructor and Video Streaming Consultant for Freeman Compression, Inc. Freeman provides instruction for Episode Encoder, Wirecast and Sawmill Professional classes at Freeman Compression Inc.
“Training is geared at familiarizing class attendees with the use of Episode Encoder, Wirecast and Sawmill Professional, along with helping them realize the powerful features found in each of these tools,” said Derrick Freeman, Instructor. “These classes will be exciting because we’ll get the chance to show students encoding techniques, how to set-up live streaming, and many of the endless possibilities when users analyze their log files.”
The cost of the training is free. Registration is free as well. A schedule of dates, times and locations is available at www.freemancompression.com/html/trainingevents.html. Those who would like to register can contact Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or send an email to info@freemancompression.com.
About Flowerfire, Inc.
Flowerfire, Inc., founded in 1996 and based in Santa Cruz, California, is a software company which provides log analysis and reporting solutions. Flowerfire’s primary product is Sawmill, a universal log analysis tool which can analyze and generate reports from over 800 log formats, including log files from all popular web servers, media servers, security applications, mail servers, spam filters, firewalls, proxies, gateways, and FTP servers. In addition to Sawmill, Flowerfire also provides consulting services for log analysis and reporting solutions. Flowerfire is privately held, family-friendly, and employee owned and controlled. (www.sawmill.net)
About Telestream
Telestream products make it possible to get video content to any audience regardless of how it is created, distributed or viewed. Throughout the entire digital media lifecycle, from capture to viewing, for consumers through high-end professionals, Telestream products include components, cross-platform encoding and live video streaming applications, plus fully-automated workflow systems. Telestream enables users in a broad range of business environments to leverage the value of their video content. Telestream corporate headquarters are located in Nevada City, California, and its team of video experts is located in France, Germany, Sweden, UK and US. (www.telestream.net)
About Freeman Compression Inc.
Located in Orlando, Florida Freeman Compression Inc. provides consulting for video streaming and compression. The company also offers video streaming training and compression training. The classes provided are: 1-Day Wowza Media Server Pro, 1-Day Episode Pro, 1-Day Wirecast, 1-Day Sawmill Professional and 2-Day Video Streaming and Compression. (www.freemancompression.com)
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Posted by Derrick on September 3, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Class Summary: This Sawmill Professional training is designed to teach you how to take advantage of one of the best tools for analyzing log files. With this tool you can analyze log files from Streaming Servers, Web Server, Apache Servers, Firewalls, FTP servers and many other devices. You’ll learn great tips for unlocking all the great features of Sawmill Professional by turning hard-to-read logs into easy-to-read tables. Our Certified Instructor will teach you how to process your log files. Learn how to resolve domain names, create custom reports, filter out unimportant database fields and gather data from specific cities and states. This training will also teach you other invaluable topics on log file analysis . When providing streaming videos on-line it’s important to be able to justify the need for streaming services to CEOs, Supervisors, Marketing Managers, TV Station Managers and other Professionals. Sawmill Professional helps you do that by providing detailed information about viewers, bandwidth usage, errors, most popular viewing days and many other items. This class is available In-class, On-site and On-line. Contact us at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com for more details about this training class.
In this training students will also learn:
- How to Create Customized Reports
- How to Resolve Domain Names
- How to View Session Paths
- Where to Locate Web Server and Streaming Server Log Files
- How to Analyze Web Server and Streaming Server Log files
- How to Analyze Apache Server, Firewall and FTP Server Log files
- How to Use Filters for Remove Unwanted Data in a Report
- How to Process Specific Time periods
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Class Overview
1. Sawmill Set-up
This portion of the class will walk students through the process of setting up Sawmill Professional. Students will learn how to set up Profiles for various log types. You’ll learn how to add additional users, specify the folders where your log files are located and how to add DNS information to resolve Domain Names. This portion on the class will also teach you how to add a customized name for a report.
2. Interface Overview
Get a feel for the Sawmill landscape as you learn where the most important interface items are located. This training module unlocks details about all the key areas that you’ll use in building your reports. You’ll learn about items such as: View Reports,View Config, Users, More Options, Log Filters, Admin, Database Info and other items.
3. Locating Web Server and Streaming Server Log Files
Before you can analyze your log files you have to first be able to find them. In this training you’ll learn where to find log files for a Web Server, Windows Media Streaming Server, Quicktime streaming Server and Wowza Flash Streaming Server.
4. Processing Web Server Logs
During this training you’ll learn how to set up your profile for performing log file analysis of Web Server log files. In addition to learning how to process files from a web server you’ll also learn about the available database fields that can be found when processing web server logs.
5. Processing Streaming Server Logs
You’ll learn how to set up your profile for performing log file analysis of Streaming Server log files. In addition to learning how to process files from a streaming server you’ll also learn about the available database fields that can be found when processing streaming server logs. You’ll also learn about the differences in information found on a web servers and streaming servers.
6. Processing Apache Server Logs
Sawmill Professional is great for processing Apache Server log files. Learn how to create reports that contain Hits, Pageviews, Spiders, Worms, Errors and other data. You can also gather information on the Web Browsers and Operating Systems your viewers use. This class will teach you how to gather information about Authenticated Users, Search Engines, Referrers, Broken Links and Server Responses.
7. Processing Firewall Logs
This portion of the training will teach you how to create reports using your Firewall log files. You’ll learn how to gather important information about who is attempting to connect to your server. In the class, we’ll create reports that provide information on Source IP Addresses, Destination IP Addresses, Source Ports, Destination Ports, and Session details.
8. Processing FTP Server Logs
In this training module, our Certified Instructor will show you how to create detailed reports for activity occurring on your FTP server. Your report will include details on User Names, File Types, Client IPs, Sessions, and Errors. These reports are great for making sure only authorized users are connecting and downloading files.
9. Resolving Domain Names
In your reports under Client IPs with the default settings, your IP Addresses will be displayed in tables only as numbers unless you resolve the Domain Names. You’ll learn where to add you DNS information so that when you create you reports you can see the Domain that viewers are coming from. This is an extremely valuable feature of Sawmill Professional.
10. Utilizing Filters
It’s great to take advantage of using filters in Sawmill Professional. With filters you can choose not to include certain database fields and items in your report. For example, if you don’t want to include a certain Domain Name or IP Address in your report you can make sure the information doesn’t get included by using a filter. In this part of the class you learn about all the great tasks you perform by applying filters.
11. Creating Customized Reports
If you have specific information that you would like to get out of your report on a regular basis, you can create a Customized Report. You can name the report and only include those items that you’re interested in. You can even take your Customized Reporting to a whole new level by adding a Menu Item name on the left hand sidebar. This is an amazing feature and our 1-Day Sawmill Professional training class will teach attendees how.
12. Understanding Session Paths
Viewing Session Paths is one of the coolest features of Sawmill Professional. This is a very important feature that Marketing departments might be interested in. Learn how to view session paths in this training module. What’s unique about viewing Session Paths is that you can see which videos users are viewing and then see where they go after viewing one particular video. This is helpful because you can see the activity of your streaming viewers after they view certain videos.
13. Getting City, State and Country Demographics
Users can process web server and streaming server log files right down to the City to get the information they need. If you have specific cities that you want to target with a streaming media campaign, you can see if your videos are being viewed by individuals in those particular cities. Let this class show you how to get statistics on cities as well as states and countries.
Sawmill Professional can also process Microsoft Exchange Server, McAfee, Cisco, Coldfusion, Interscan, NetGear, Novell, Oracle, Symantec, Watchguard, and Windows Event logs. In total the application supports 819 log formats.
Give us a call about signing up to attend one of our Sawmill Professional Trainings. Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 for more information or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com. Individuals from any country can attend our On-line training classes.
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