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Review: NetIQ Shows Analysis Smarts

January 21, 2002
By Michael J. DeMaria

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How We Tested Web Traffic Analysis Tools


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As our test box, we used a Compaq Computer Corp. ProLiant DL580 with 4 GB of RAM, quad 700-MHz Intel Xeon processors plus two 9.1-GB and two 18.2-GB 10K Ultra3 SCSI drives. Drives of similar types used RAID 0, forming two logical drives of 18 GB and 36 GB. We ran Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2 and, when needed, SQL 7 SP3.

We analyzed approximately one month of data from four Web sites: dreamscape.com, hotshoppe.com, zodiac-x-files.com and virtualfreesites.com. Dreamscape had 8 GB of log files, hotshoppe had 50 MB, zodiac had 50 MB and virtualfreesites had 500 MB. We are no longer in possession of the log files; please do not ask for samples.

Hotshoppe.com is an e-commerce site running on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS); all the other sites we examined run on Apache. The Apache sites were configured to use the Apache Combined Log format, which integrates the referrer information and the access log file.