Nagios and webalizer

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Assaf Flatto wrote:

> Has anyone ever used this two utilities together ?
>
> If so how did you manage to tell the webalizer to ignore the nagios requests in
> the web site statistics ?
>
> I have a very small site and i see more then 2M hits over a week ( i know i
> don't have 2m hits but i have the nagios monitor the site by running a url test)
>   so i want to make the webalizer ignore those requests .

First off.  2M hits can't be all Nagios. Even with 1 check per minute you
end up with 60 x 24 x 7 = 10080 hits. That is not even close. So please do
not use crappy numbers.

Then there is the fact that webalizer does not remove anything from
generated graphs. You need to clear out all of your cache files as well if
you want to get rid of it.

And I dropped webalizer in favor of awstats quite a while ago. And I
prefer not to make them public like I used to as one gets a shitload of
hits once the webspammers find your webalizer pages. They just hit your
system with dummy request just to get their crappy site in your referer
logs.

Hugo.

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