Appending User information string into access.log

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July 27, 2010
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Hi,

I want to add some custom string into the FMS log file. If I am playing a video and I want to append some string every time when that video is played, which is in some way useful to me in analyzing FMS log, then is there anything provided or some function in which we can just pass the string as an input argument that appends it at appropriate place in the log file.

Thank you.

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Hi Mayank

I think appending custom information to access log maynot be possible other than what is suggested in the other post, http://forums.adobe.com/message/3005886#3005886

If you want to display some custom information whenever an event like play occurs, apart from the information that access log provides then I would suggest you to check out the authorization plug-in feature of FMS.

You could refer http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_Plugin/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0d662434-7fe8.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0d662434-7fe2

The authorization plugin allows you to monitor server events like connect, play, stop etc and access various fields available for those events. It also allows you to log custom information when a particular event occurs by suitably writing the code for it in the auth plug-in. One can write all the relevant events, fields and custom information to the authMessage.00.log which is created alongside access.00.log.

Regards

Mamata

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Anonymous

Correct answer

Hi Mayank

I think appending custom information to access log maynot be possible other than what is suggested in the other post, http://forums.adobe.com/message/3005886#3005886

If you want to display some custom information whenever an event like play occurs, apart from the information that access log provides then I would suggest you to check out the authorization plug-in feature of FMS.

You could refer http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_Plugin/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0d662434-7fe8.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0d662434-7fe2

The authorization plugin allows you to monitor server events like connect, play, stop etc and access various fields available for those events. It also allows you to log custom information when a particular event occurs by suitably writing the code for it in the auth plug-in. One can write all the relevant events, fields and custom information to the authMessage.00.log which is created alongside access.00.log.

Regards

Mamata

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Mayank_JAuthor

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Hi Mamata,

Thanks for your response.

I have one query apart from this. We have cs-uri-query, x-sname-query which gives the query string of the uri. I'm passing user ID of the person who watched the video as a part of query string in addition to the video path using "FlashVars". But when I checked the events namely cs-uri-query and x-sname-query in the logfiles they are just displaying the path of the video and not the user ID.

Do I need to check some other fields for that. Or may be I need to change some code in .fla file so that it can take the user ID into the query string.

Thank You.

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Hi Mayank

There is no way to display the custom user id that you are sending by simply adding the standard fields in access log.

So you could use the 2nd option you mentioned, that is ,..."may be I need to change some code in .fla file so that it can take the user ID into the query string."

You can refer to the post http://forums.adobe.com/message/3005886#3005886 where Abhishek suggests the workaround by which you can accomplish this.

Regards

Mamata

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