[Orca-dev] Question: Values for webserver monitoring

[Sean O'Neill]

At 02:29 PM 5/7/2003 -0500, Sean O'Neill wrote:
>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.

Nope, wrong again.  It is being called - I think - but its not incrementing 
on my system for some reason.


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Sean O'Neill