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dundurz-VxK1g8
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March 18, 2011
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Logging unique visitors, not IPs

  • March 18, 2011
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Hello,

Is it possible to set up FMS to log uniqe visitors in FMS access log file?

I am aware of unique IP and session ID (c-client-id) logging, but these do not represent actual number of viewers. So I was hoping to get something like unique browser ID (a cookie?) which I guess is the closest I can get to the actual number of unique visitors.

If anyone has other ideas, how to log unique visitors or a variable close to unique visitors, please share.

If browser cookie is the way to go, can someone tell me how to "forward" this to FMS log file?

Also, what software would you recommend for FMS log analysis? Im currently using Sawmill, but Im not completely satisfied, because I cannot see how many people have watched the webstream for how many minutes, therefore the reporting is inaccurate.

Any help will be much appreciated,

Artūrs

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    Adobe Employee
    amit_kr
    Adobe Employee
    March 23, 2011

    For me I think client-ip along with client-id will give unique visitor, but may be for you its not the case. So can you clarify what does unique visitor mean for you then I would be able to answer your query correctly.

    Also for log analysis I would recommend using awk command which comes for windows also and is in built in linux to extract relevant data, you just need to frame your regular expression based on your query to get the relevant data.

    Regards,

    Amit

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    Anonymous
    March 23, 2011

    About sawmill, it is capable of tracking play duration per client, but I don't think it does it out of the box. You'd need to write your own sawmill script to create the profile to do it (I personally don't know how, we contract sawmill support to handle such tasks), or use an addon module (pretty sure sawmill offers a prefab FMS module that will return acurate results

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