On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Rolf wrote:
> what do people use for centralised logging for multiple squid boxes?
Most people I know periodically (usually nighlty) collect the logs from
the proxy servers to the central log server, where they then run
statistics etc..
> About to put in another server, didn't see any relevant directives in
> squid.conf for redirecting log output (but I could have missed).
There is none.
> Is it best to setup a method to transfer the logs to a master machine and
> modify the reporting/analysing tools to deal with those logfiles?
scp is a good tool for transferring logs, easily scheduled by cron.
> What happens in the case of proxy A receiving a request and asking proxy B
> for it (in the case where they are configured to ask each other)? The
> respective logs would both record the client request where in fact there was
> only one?
Yes, but in one of them the client IP is the other proxy so it isn't that
hard to filter out if not wanted.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Jan 22 2005 - 16:26:42 MST
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