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Anonymous
August 18, 2010
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Reporting in FMS 3.5

  • August 18, 2010
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Hello all , my first post here, so please be gentle

I recently had an FMS server(running on CentOS) thrown my way, as our flash programmer left us for another position. So now i have this FMS server and not too much knowledge about it, other than how to access the admin panle and load  an app and stop and restart it, which seems to be enough for now..

However i am being asked to give some stats  to the marketing people... They want some stats on how many users connect at different times during the day/night...

But i cannot figure out how to create historical reports or graphs and such...

Can someone point me to some docs  that would explain how to retrieve stats like what i mentioned above?

Thanks so very much and toall a great day!

Rob Morin

Montreal, Canada

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    Anonymous
    August 18, 2010

    Hi,

    Can you be a bit more clear in what kind of logs do you want to retrieve? In case you want stats like number of users connected and played etc., you can use access.00.log which has all the information. You can either acquire or write a parser to get data from this log in form you want. Also you can configure which events and which fields to log in access.00.log using logger.xml present in conf directory under fms install directory. Configure <Fields> and <Events> tag under <Access> for this purpose.

    To get live stats like number of users currently connected, or number of apps currently loaded, you can use the admin API. Go through the Admin API reference guide present under FMS Install dir/Documentation

    Revert back for any clarifications or if I didn't get your requirement correctly.

    Thanks,

    Abhishek

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    Anonymous
    August 18, 2010

    Ok cool thanks for that info....  pretty much they want to know , lets say how many users watched  videos in a 24  hour period, and if possible what videos were watched....ALso they wanted a graph or stat that woudl tell them at peak, how many users we had connected...

    I will look into this Logger.xml file and see what cool things i can adjust....

    I assume after i edit this file i have to restart the application or service?

    Thanks for your prompt reply!

    Rob Morin

    Montreal, Canada

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    Anonymous
    August 18, 2010

    Yes you will have to restart after changing logger.xml. However check the access.00.logs first. Looking at your requirements it is quite possible that all required fields are already getting logged. You can write a program or get such program from third party to parse this log and generate graphs, pie charts etc. out of it.

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