Statistics¶

Gathering Statistics¶

NNTPSwitch can create two kind of statistics. A detailed usage report of the server is created every day from the maintenance scripts. Also realtime profile usage statistics are available using rrd.

Daily Usage Reports¶

Daily usage reports are usually generated from the nsstats.sh shell script every night. However you might create intermediate reports using a command like this:

nsstats.pl -d /html/www/dir < news.notice

High volume sites can generate a lot of logging overhead. You can tune the following options in nntpswitch.conf: LogCommands, LogWriteclient, LogReadserver and LogWriteserver.

RRD Statistics¶

RRD statistics by using RRDBrowse is unsupported as of January 2008 but the documentation is still listed here for reference.

Your RRD host should have stats access in an ACL, for example:

192.168.1.1/32  read,post,stats

For each profile you should create 3 nfo files. One for the number of active/connected users and connections, one for the bandwidth and one for the number of articles per second.

Example of Users nfo:

Type: ntsprofile
Target: 119@your.server
Profile: default
Description: Default Profile Users

Example of Bandwidth nfo:

Type: ntsprofbw
Target: 119@your.server
Profile: default
Description: Default Profile Bandwidth

Example of Articles nfo:

Type: ntsprofarts
Target: 119@your.server
Profile: default
Description: Default Profile Articles per Second