Logging: iPlanet

Overview

This article provides a brief overview of how to configure logging for an iPlanet webserver to facilitate proper processing and reporting for Urchin.

Use "Netscape" type for Log Source setting.

There is a set of minimally required fields necessary for Urchin to produce reports. They are:

date
time
hostname or ip address of requesting system
request (i.e. what document did the requesting system ask from your webserver)
status code generated by request (numeric)
bytes (bytes transferred from server to client)

In addition, for the most complete reporting you need the following fields:

referral
user-agent
cookies (if the Urchin Traffic Monitor is installed on your site)

Configuration

Init fn=flex-init access="$accesslog"
format.access="%Ses->client.ip% - %Req->vars.auth-user%
[%SYSDATE%] \"%Req->reqpb.clf-request%\"
%Req->srvhdrs.clf-status% %Req->srvhdrs.content-length%
\"%Req->headers.user-agent%\"
\"%Req->headers.referer%\"
\"%Req->headers.cookie%\""