Re: query on central stats
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Mark Boolootian wrote:
>
> What do most folks do as far as the central statistics go?
> Are most sites keeping their own central stats? That doesn't
> sound exactly scalable. If not that, then I assume one would
> modify the HTML in the various files to point to some suitable
> site (e.g. jhereg.ncsa.uiuc.edu).
Out of the box, statistics are automatically reported to the main beacon
server. If you want to set up your own beacon network then you have to
pick a different multicast group and select one machine to be the
central server, i.e. edit beacon.conf
There are schemes for allocating multicast addresses according to
AS number etc. - you cannot just pick one and use it around the world
with a TTL more than 32 or something.
You should not have to modify the HTML, as I recollect.
You can put local stats on a webserver easily, though.
No, it isn't exactly scalable. The traffic goes up at least linearly as
the number of sites, and the size of the statistics pages go up as
N-squared.
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