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Reporttype

Thereare2reporttypesDomainandUserstatistics.Theformerreportisusedtoanalyzedomainusageofallwebrequests,whilethelattertoviewwebrequestsofeachuser.

Frequency

Thereare4typesoffrequencyavailableonce,daily,weeklyandmonthly.Thereisonedifferencebetweenoncereportandothers.Oncereportisdesignedtocreatecustomreports,therearenorestrictionsforthistypeofreport.Asthenamestates,itisexecutedonlyonce,whiletheothersareperiodic.Periodicreportsaregeneratedonlywhenalldataarecollected.Forexample,ifdataforMarch4thareneeded,themareavailableonlyafterMarch5th00:00.

Recipient

Allgeneratedreportscanbesenttoemail.If"Norecipient"isselected,reportsisnotsenttoanyemail.But,asallreports,itisstillavailabletoseethegeneratedreportinwebinterface,reportsection,(history).RecipientaddressesareselectedfromIPUserlist,whichcanbeeditedatIPuserspage.

Dateinterval

Thesefieldsareforsettingupdateboundariesforreport.

ForoncereportitmeansthatalldatainthisperiodwillbeselectedFordailyforeachday,weeklyeachweek,monthlyeachmonth.

Itisposible,tosettheseboundariesinpastandinfuture.ForexampleiftodayisFebruary15thitisposibletosetthesevaluesfordailyreportJanuary3rdtoFebruary2ndandreceivereportsforeachdayinthisperiodorforMarch5thtoApril20thandwhenthesedatescomereportswillbegeneratedthen.

Dayinterval

Thisfieldisonlyavailableformonthlyreports.Itdenotesneededdataintervalfirstandlastdayofeachmonthofdatatoincludeinreport.Forexampleifdataforfirstanthensecondhalfofmonthisneeded,2reportsmustbecreatedone1sttill15th,second16thtill31st.Fortheenddateanyvaluegreaterthanthedaycountintheactualmonthisconsideredasthelastdayofthemonth.Forexample,thereare28/29daysintheFebruary,soanyvaluegreaterthan28meansendofthemonth.ButforOctober,29means"donotselectdataaboutOctober30and31".

Weekdays

Useifcustomdaysofweekfiltrationneeded.Forexampleifonlyworkingdaysneededthenuncheckweekenddays.

Timeinterval

Useifcustomtimeofdayfiltrationneeded.Multipletimeintervalsavailable,forexample,09:0012:00and13:0017:00.Click toaddand toremoveintervals.

IP

UsetofilterIPaddresses.If"Showall"selectedthenreportforallIPaddressesandapproximatetime

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spentoninternetisdisplayed.OtherwisedomainsandtimeforspecificIPuser.

Domain

Usetofilterdomainsandpartsofdomains.Asexplainedpreviouslydomainisdividedin3partssubdomain,domainandtopdomain.Respectivelyusefirstfieldtofilterbysubdomain,secondbydomainandetc.

Top

Useifonlymostoftengathereddataisneeded.Forexample,select"Viewtop10"toviewonly10mostuseddomains.

Generatetime

Thisfieldistosettimewhenreportmustbegenerated.Foreachfrequencyitisdifferent.For"once"itisdateanddaytime,fordailyonlydaytimeandetc.Howmentionedpreviouslyinthissectiondatacanbegeneratedonlywhenalldataarecollected.Forexample,ifweeklyreportforworkingdaysneededthendatacanbegeneratedonlyafterSaturday00:00.Principleasfastaspossible.

TimecalculationTimeusedforeachdomainoruseriscalculatedbyasimplealgorithmifusermakesatleastonewebrequestperminute,userhasusedinternetforoneminute.Itmeansthatitisnodifferenceiftherearetousandsofrequestsperminuteorejustone.Countoftheserequestareselectedandviewedundercolumn"Hitcount".Anditisirrelevant,howmanydifferentrequestsaremadeatonetime.

CreatedReportsReportsconsistoftwoparts:1.Reportconfigurationcontainsinformationaboutwhatdatahastobecollected,whenthereportswillbegeneratedandwhowillreceivethem2.Thegeneratedreportcontainstheactualdatabasedonconfigurationrules.

TheconfigurationiscreatedinthereportsectionontheProxylizerwebpage.

Reportsaregeneratedautomaticallybyabackgroundscriptwhichisrunbythescheduler.

Whenaconfigurationisdeleted,allgeneratedreportsforthatconfigurationaredeletedaswell.

ReportGenerationReportgenerationprincipleislikethiseachminutescriptisstartedandcheckediftheremustbesomereportgenerated.Reportsaregeneratedasfastasposiblewhenalldataarecollectedandgenerationtimehascome.Ifsomereportsaregeneratingmorethenoneminute,thereismaximumsimultaneousgeneratingreportamountdefined,whichcanbesetintheconfigsection.Formulticoreprocessorsthisvalueshouldbeequalwiththecorecounttoutilizetheprocessorefficiently.Ifthereissomeproblemsorerrorsduringreportgeneration,emailissent.Todiagnosetheproblem,lookforlogfilesthatarestoredin"/var/log/proxylizerdirectory(mail_send_log.log"isthedefaultlogfile).

ReportHistory

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ThewholehistoryofgeneratedreportsareavailableinthereportsectionontheProxylizerwebpage.Eachreportinthetablehasthe (history)iconintheactioncolumn.Clickingonitrevealsthelistofgeneratedreportsforthisconfiguration.Aparticularreportcanbeaccessedthenbyclickingonthe(View)icon.

InactiveReportsIfareportisnotneededforawhile,itcanbedeactivatedinsteadofdeleting.Ithasthefollowingadvantages:

ThehistoryissavedReportcanbeactivatedlaterwithoutcreatingnewconfiguration.

Duringthetimewhenareportisinactive,itisnotgenerated.Ifitisactivatedafterwards,reportwillbegeneratedagainstartingfromtheactivationpoint.Forexample,ifadailyreportisinactiveforaperiodof20.jan.2009.25.jan.2009.thenextreportgeneratedafter19.jan.2009.willbetheoneabout26.jan.2009.,reportsduringtheinactivityperiodwillbeskipped.

Reportscanbeactivated/deactivatedintheReportssectionontheProxylizerWebpage.

ReportEditingReportconfigurationscanbeeditedaftercreating.Butsomerestrictionsapply:

Reportswithfrequency"once"canbemodifiedonlybeforetheyaregenerated.Whenthereportisprocessed,theconfigurationisreadonly,becausethisiswhat"once"meansTootherreporttypesonlythefields,whichdonotchangethesemanticsofthereport,canbeedited.Forexample:dateinterval,weekdaysandgeneratetimecanbechangedfordailyreportastheyalldonotaffectthecontentsofdailyreporttheyonlyspecifysomepropertiesofwhenthereportmustbegenerated.Reporttype,frequency,timeinterval,IPaddressanddomainarereadonly,becausechangingthesevaluesleadstoacompletelydifferentreport.

IPUsersEachWebproxyrequesthasasourceIPaddressaddressofthehost,whichgeneratedthewebrequest.ReportscanbefilteredusingthisIPaddress.

UsuallyonestaticIPaddresscorrespondstoaspecificstaffmember.TomakethefilteringbyIPaddresseasy,ProxylizerhastheabilitytoassignrealpersonstoIPaddresses.ThiscanbedoneintheIPUserssectionontheProxylizerwebpage.

IPusersareusedonlytoassignpersonnamesandemailaddressestoIPaddresses.IPusersdonothaveaccesstoProxylizerwebpage.

EachIPUser(person)hasthefollowingattributes:

IPaddressoftheperson'scomputerNameEmailperson'saddresstowhichreportemailscanbesentAdminwhenchecked,thisuseristreatedasadministrator.SomeProxylizerfunctionsaredesignedforadmins,forexample,carboncopy(CC)ofemailreportscanbesenttoalladminemail

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addressesUserreceivesemptyreportswhenchecked,thisuserreceivesemailreportsevenwhentheyareempty(forexample,reportsofweekenddatawhennowebrequestsaregenerated).Thisisusefulforadministratorstoidentifyreportgenerationproblemstheadministratorissurethatreportwillbesentanyway,andwhenitisnotreceived,ithappensonlybecauseofsomesystemorinfrastructurefailure.

DatabaseStatisticsDatabase(DB)statisticsareshowninStatussectionontheProxylizeWebPage.Thefollowingstatisticsareavailable:

HITMISSratio:showsthewebproxyhit/missrationwhatpartofallrequestsarefoundintheproxy'scacheTotaldomaincount:totalcountofdifferentdomainsstoredinthedatabase.Notethat,forexample,www.mikrotik.comandwiki.mikrotik.comarecountedastwodifferentdomainsTotalhitcount:totalcountofrequestsloggedbythewebproxyOldestrecordoldestrequeststoredintheDBrightnow.ThisdeterminestheoldestpointintimewehavedataaboutLatestrecordmostrecentwebrequestloggedintheDB.Ifthisfieldcontainsanoldvalue(let'ssay,morethanonehourago)thismeansoneofthefollowing:eithertheclientsarenotusingwebproxyorrequestsarenotloggedtoProxylizerDB.ThisvaluecanbeusedtodetectsystemerrorsDatabasesize:howbigisthedatabasecurrently.ThiscanbeusedtoidentifyhowmuchthesizeoftheDBgrowsdaily,monthlyetc.

Asyoucouldnotice,thesevaluesareloadednotimmediatelyafterlogginginthewebinterface,ratherseveralsecondslater.Thereasonissimplecalculatingthestatisticstakessometimeandtonotforcethewebusertowait,theyareloadedinbackground.Oncethevaluesarecalculated,theyarecachedforthewholewebsession.Togettheactualstatistics,Refreshbuttoncanbeusedlater.