[Orca-dev] Question: Values for webserver monitoring

[Sean O'Neill]

At 12:44 PM 5/7/2003 -0500, Sean O'Neill wrote:
>At 07:24 PM 5/7/2003 +0200, B.Schopp at gmx.de wrote:
>>Hi Sean,
>>
>> > >- httpop_gets
>> > >- httpop_posts
>> > >- httpop_condgets
>> >
>> > Not familiar with this one.  Can you explain what a httpop_condgets is ?
>>
>>Blair uses this value in orcallator.se to count the methods HEAD and reply
>>code 304, which both don't have to deliver a file back and therefore have
>>no size returned (In most cases, respectively :-) ).
>>
>> > I would think maybe in these groupings:
>> >
>> > - dwnld_size[0-4]
>> > - dwnld_totalz
>> > - httpop_gets, httpop_posts, httpop_condgets
>> > - http_errors
>> > - # of webservers
>>
>>Accepted, with respect to the open point of httpop_condgets
>>
>> > Not sure what a httpop_condgets is but a get and a post are both "hits"
>> > against a web server.
>>
>>In this case, i will combine the values of gets and posts to hits and count
>>condgets seperate (and keep it as value in the generated dataflies).
>>Maybe it will be of interest in deeper webmonitoring.
>
>I was just looking over how httpops is calculated in orcallator.se.  It 
>looks like every line is counted as a hit no matter what the status code - 
>which kinda makes sense.  Then the hits are broken down into simple types:
>
>   put_output("cndget/s",   sprintf("%8.2f", httpop_condgets/www_interval));
>   put_output("search/s",   sprintf("%8.3f", httpop_searches/www_interval));
>   put_output("   cgi/s",   sprintf("%8.3f", httpop_cgi_bins/www_interval));
>   put_output(" htErr/s",   sprintf("%8.3f", httpop_errors/www_interval));
>
>Oddly, GET and POST are both collected as statistics within orcallator.se 
>but they aren't stored in the result text file like errors, cgi hits, and 
>searches are above.
>
>// Handle the method of the object served.  This define only works
>// with non-proxy servers.
>#define WWW_METHOD1(word)                                       \
>   switch (word) {                                               \
>     case "get":                                                 \
>     case "GET":                                                 \
>       httpop_gets++;                                            \
>       break;                                                    \
>     case "post":                                                \
>     case "POST":                                                \
>       httpop_posts++;                                           \
>       break;                                                    \
>     case "head":                                                \
>     case "HEAD":                                                \
>       ishead = 1;                                               \
>       httpop_condgets++;                                        \
>       break;
>
>Looks like orcallator.se needs some updating.

Nope, looks like I'm wrong.  I'll still trying to figure it out but this 
WWW_METHOD1 code appears to not be called at all.  So httpop_gets and 
httpop_puts is never incremented.


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