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Admin Log Analyzer

The Log Analyzer is a tool for analyzing various statistics files generated by the FirstClass server, including user activity, disk usage, web activity, and voice usage. It allows administrators to process single or multiple statistics files, configure preferences, save analyses, and schedule tasks for regular reporting. The tool also provides real-time tracking of user activities and supports filtering and comparison of reports for better insights into system usage.

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Admin Log Analyzer

The Log Analyzer is a tool for analyzing various statistics files generated by the FirstClass server, including user activity, disk usage, web activity, and voice usage. It allows administrators to process single or multiple statistics files, configure preferences, save analyses, and schedule tasks for regular reporting. The tool also provides real-time tracking of user activities and supports filtering and comparison of reports for better insights into system usage.

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Log Analyzer
About Log Analyzer
Configuring Log Analyzer
Image preferences
View preferences
Sounds preferences
Processing input
Processing a single statistics file
Processing multiple statistics files
Processing options
Saving your analyses
Scheduling statistics analyses
Analyzing user statistics
User statistics settings
Saving user analyses
Viewing user analyses
Exclusion filtering for user statistics
Analyzing data comparisons
Generating data comparison analyses
Analyzing disk use statistics
Disk use analysis settings
Viewing disk use analyses
Analyzing web use statistics
Web use analysis settings
Viewing web use analyses
Analyzing voice usage statistics
Voice use analysis settings
Viewing voice use analyses
Seeing user activity statistics in real time
Tracking specific activities
Preloading information from analyzed data
Tracking a user's activity
Tracking an organizational unit's activity
Tracking IP activity
Tracking a user's failed logins
Tracking container activity
Tracking attachment activity
Tracking spam
Tracking created items
Tracking viewed items
Tracking deleted items
Tracking messages
Tracking a user's instant messaging sessions
Tracking administrative activities
Tracking other activities

About Log Analyzer


The FirstClass server generates several statistics files to help administrators keep track of user, services
and disk activity on their FirstClass system:
• user statistics files record user activity
• disk use statistics files record the amount of hard disk space each user is using
These reports are generated whenever a system audit is performed.
• Web use statistics files record all HTTP Internet activity on your host sites
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• Voice use statistics files record all inbound and outbound call activity.
This is only available to FirstClass Unified Communications customers.
The Log Analyzer generates analyses based on the data it extracts from these statistics files and displays
them in easy-to-read formats for quick analysis.
The FirstClass Log Analyzer uses your statistics files to generate analyses displaying protocols and user
activities on your system. Using this application, you can track the following activities:
• user logins
• activities in the Journaling control section on the Statistics Control form.
• interface types used to log in (client, web, phone)
• disk usage
• top disk space users
• IP activity
• Voice Services usage.
The Log Analyzer can also:
• compare two previously saved user reports
• monitor current user activity
• filter activities or users from a statistics file
• generate external reports that can be printed or viewed later (user statistics files only).
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Licensing Log Analyzer


For evaluation purposes, you can use Log Analyzer in Demo mode without a license. However, only the first
1000 lines from each statistics file will be processed. We recommend that you purchase a Log Analyzer
license and apply it to your server.
To apply the Log Analyzer license, use the Licensing tab of the System Profile form. You don't need to shut
down your server.
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Configuring Log Analyzer


The Log Analyzer general preferences allows you to configure your analysis properties. These will be the
same for all analyses generated. To access the general preferences:
1 Open Log Analyzer.
2 Click Settings.
3 Click Preferences/Schedule.
4 Update the tabs as desired.

Image preferences

Image Pref How you want to see charts. Selecting each option shows a preview of what you'll see.
Color tab The colors you want to use for the components of your charts.
To revert to the shipping colors, click Default Colors. This button controls the colors on
the Table tab as well.
If you selected "Column" and want to see your columns in different colors, select "Multi
Data Color".
Table tab To include a table of the charted values, select "Include Data Table".
You can customize the table colors.
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Contains tab The checkboxes on this tab display gridlines on the chart, or remove them.

View preferences

Interface Choose Classic to


Choose Enhanced to
Display Frequent Users How many of your most frequent users you want identified in the analysis.
View Report After File is Automatically displays the analysis after file processing is complete.
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Sounds preferences

Volume for built-in sounds How loud you want Log Analyzer sounds to play.
You can turn off sounds completely.
Play Sound After File is Plays an alert as soon as the file is processed.
Processed
To preview the alert, click

Play Sound on Error Plays an alert whenever an error occurs.


To preview the alert, click the icon.

The remaining tabs are used for specific analyses, and are explained later.
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Processing input
You can process either a single statistics file or multiple statistics files located in a single folder/directory.

Processing a single statistics file


To process a statistics file:
1 Click Settings.
2 Clear "Process Multiple Input Files" at "Log Type".
3 Click OK.
4 Click Process on the Log Analyzer main window.
5 Browse to the file location.

Shortcut
Drag the file onto the Log Analyzer main window.

Processing multiple statistics files


The Log Analyzer allows you to batch process your statistics files. You can only process multiple statistics
files of the same type. Don't mix different types of statistics files in the input files' folder location.

Tip
The number of files processed in a single batch is determined by available free memory. For best
results, we recommend a maximum of one months worth of statistics files.
To process multiple statistics files located in a folder:
1 Click Settings.
2 Select "Process Multiple Input Files" at "Log Type".
3 Browse to the folder location.
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4 Click OK.
5 Click Process on the Log Analyzer main window to begin processing.

Shortcut
Select all the files to be processed and drag them onto the Log Analyzer main window.

Processing options
While the statistics file is being processed, click the buttons on the Log Analyzer main window to:
• see processing details
• pause processing
• continue processing
• stop processing altogether.

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Saving your analyses


To save all analyses generated as reports:
1 Open Log Analyzer.
2 Click Settings.
3 Click Report.
4 Select Create Report.
5 Select your report format at "Report Output Format".
6 Select "Don't Overwrite Reports", if you want each report created to be saved as a new report.
7 Select the information you want saved in your reports at "Report Information".
8 Specify the location where you want the reports to be saved at "Report Output Location".
Either type the path or click Browse and browse to the location.
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Sheduling statistics analyses


To create a schedule for processing server statistics files and generating analyses:
1 Open Log Analyzer.
2 Click Settings.
3 Click Preferences/Schedule.
4 Click Schedule.
5 Specify the location of the input folder at "Input Files Folder Location".
Either type the path or click Browse and browse to the location.
6 Select "Start Scheduler at".
7 Choose the frequency of the task at "Schedule Task".
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If you choose Daily, also select "Process Previous Day Log File" to analyze the server statistics from the
previous day.
If you choose Weekly, also specify the weekly interval between tasks and select the days of the week
they are to be performed at "Schedule Task Weekly".
If you choose Monthly, also enter the day of the month and select the months the tasks are to be
performed at "Schedule Task Monthly".
8 Choose the start time of tasks at "Schedule Start Time".
Once the task is set, it will appear in the Scheduled Tasks folder in the Windows Control Panel.
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Analyzing user statistics


Your FirstClass system logs all user activity in its user statistics files. The Log Analyzer allows you to run
analyses of this activity.

Note
Only the statistics the server has been told to save can be analyzed.

User statistics settings


User statistics settings allow you to control what information is displayed in your user analyses. To open
the user statistics settings:
1 Open Log Analyzer.
2 Click Settings.
3 Select the Server/Disk Use.
4 Click Statistics Log.

Setting basic analysis preferences


Basic analysis preferences let you specify which login protocols you want analyzed. To set the basic
preferences for user analyses:
1 Open the user settings window.
2 Select the Analysis tab.
3 Select the login protocols you want analyzed in your user analyses.

Setting advanced analysis preferences


The advanced analysis preferences let you specify which analysis features to generate specific analyses for,
in your user analysis. To set the advanced analysis preferences for your user analyses:
1 Open the user settings window.
2 Select Enhanced Analysis.
3 Select the features you want specific analyses to be generated for.

Note
If there is no information regarding any of the selected features in the user statistics file(s), a specific
analysis for that feature will not be made available.

Setting the IP to Country preferences


The IP to Country settings allow you to specify the number of countries you want displayed in your IP
activity section of the user analysis. To set the IP to Country preferences for your user analyses:
1 Open Log Analyzer.
2 Click Settings.
3 Click Preferences/Schedule.
4 Click Preferences.

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