Analog.cfg

What's the best config?

[bill]

Analog is a great tool, but it can take a long while to get a config file massaged into the shape you want it. Would anybody care to share how they've optimized their .cfg files to get the best info out of their logs?

I've essentially been running a customized version of one of the big.cfg files, but realize there's a lot more power to this software. How do you tweak yours?

[Macguru]

Hi bill,

The output is greately improved using Report Magic.

[edited by: Marcia at 4:15 pm (utc) on Feb. 2, 2003]
[edit reason] defunct URL removed [/edit]

[bill]

ooohh thanks. That's the type of stuff I was looking for! :)

You don't use that extensive SearchQuery.txt from [science.co.il...] to give you the latest listings of SEs? It seems to be updated rather regularly.

[Macguru]

>>latest listings of SEs

Geez thanks bill! I like it!

[bill]

Since Analog seems to be getting popular in this forum again...feel free to add any .cfg tweaks to this thread :)

[Son_House]

I found that Aliases can come in handy. In the Request Report I was getting listings for /pageone/ and /pageone/index.htm so I added this:

FILEALIAS /pageone/ /pageone/index.htm

Now all requests for /pageone/ are listed with /pageone/index.htm

Another one I find handy is BROWALIAS. I have added the following to get these bots to show up in the Browser Summary.

BROWALIAS *[e-mail]* Slurp
BROWALIAS *Jeeves* Ask_Jeeves
BROWALIAS *T-H-U-N-D-E-R-S-T-O-N-E* Thunderstone
BROWALIAS *[e-mail]* ZyBorg

[Son_House]

In my above post I said that we can get slurp to show up by using:
BROWALIAS *[e-mail]* Slurp

While it works and is nice it also lists the different slurp bots just as slurp in the Browser Summary. I am now doing something I like better. First thing that needs to be done is adding # before BROWALIAS *[e-mail]* Slurp or you can just delete that line altogether.

Then you can add this:

BROWALIAS *Slurp/cat* Slurp/cat
BROWALIAS *Slurp/si* Slurp/si
BROWALIAS *Slurp.so/1.0* Slurp/so
BROWALIAS *Slurp/2.0-KiteWeekly* Slurp/KiteWeekly
BROWALIAS *Slurp/2.0-MakoCrawl* Slurp/MakoCrawl

The five above I have tested and know they work, the next three have not been tested but should work:

BROWALIAS *Slurp/2.0-KiteHourly* Slurp/KiteHourly
BROWALIAS *Slurp/2.0-Boobook* Slurp/Boobook
BROWALIAS *Slurp/2.0-GreatWhiteCrawl* Slurp/GreatWhiteCrawl

Now the next time you run analog you will know which slurp bot hit the site, as they will not all just be listed as slurp.

[Son_House]

This mod is for the File Type Report. It is adding a "TYPEALIAS".

We have some .dat files on the site and in the File Type Report they had no name given to them so I added the following:

TYPEALIAS .dat ".dat [Data]"

We can also change what the files are called by changing the text [in these brackets]. We can also line up the description given by lining up the [ ] in the analog.cfg

[keyplyr]

How can I get all the same aliases to total instead of just changing the name?

REFSITEALIAS [translate.google.*...] [google.com...]
REFSITEALIAS [images.google.*...] [google.com...]
REFSITEALIAS [directory.google.*...] [google.com...]

These all sucessfully change to [google.com...] but now there are three lines, I want just one total.

[HandwovenRug]

keyplyr:
Use REFALIAS instead of REFSITEALIAS. Voila, your aliases shows just once

[keyplyr]

Excellent HandwovenRug, thanks

[HandwovenRug]

Maybe it's of general interest, I've posted an example analog.cfg with lots of filtering and tweaks here:
[psychedelix.com...]