[CLUE-Tech] GPL FTP analysis program?
Jeff Cann
j.cann at isuma.org
Tue Aug 12 13:54:26 MDT 2003
Greetings.
Can anyone recommend a versatile FTP log analysis program? I am not looking
for standard traffic / size analysis (like you get with webalizer). I want
to scan logs and aggregate data based on the user. Here are some examples of
questions I need to answer:
a) List the date/time/size of the last file downloaded by a given user.
b) List all downloaded files for a given user for month X.
c) For a list of files uploaded, list the user, date and time when they were
downloaded.
I already have a perl script to parse FTP logs, but it's not flexible in how
it can roll up statistics for a use.
It's not difficult to change the script to answer the next (business)
question. But, everytime there's a new question, I write more code (not very
good code, I might add). The script started as a quick hack and now people
(at work) are coming to me for more analysis. Ideally, I should have put
parsed data into a database and then it would be a snap to answer novel
business questions by writing SQL queries.
So, I'm looking for something polished that does not have to be changed at the
code level. So far, I have only found commercial software. I'm looking for
GPL equivalents. Suggestions?
Thanks!
Jeff
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