Log Viewer for Web Servers

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Log Viewer for Web Servers

• Author Fischer Michael
• Supervisor Mr. Balla Eliezer

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Description

• The project is built from several different
  modules - each of them allows to perform one
  task,
• The project will allow to look in log-files
  supplied by Web Servers under different slices,
• Modular structure of the tool will allow
  convinient way to add new tasks to this tool.

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Project Goals

• Studying new programming language Perl and
  HTML,
• To build a new tool that will allow convinient
  way to analyze log-files supplied by Web Servers.
• Optional
• - Using SQL for speeding the
• reaction of the tool,
• - Adding Login\Logout .

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Projects Data Flow
GUI
Choose log-file
Upload module
Choose Slice
Choose New log-file
Slice module
Choose New Slice
Data Presentation in HTML Table
Refresh of data in log-file
Exit
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Upload Log-File Module
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Define Slice module
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Resulting Slice Table module
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Refresh Module

• Used to update log-file currently in use,
• Updating of log-file automaticly will update
  resulting table by using pre-defined slice,
• The common use is when in slice defined Number
  lines till ending log-file, or when whole
  log-file is choosed.

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Benefits of using this program

• Convinient way to retrieve info from log-file.
• Slices of log-file defined by user.
• Program will automaticly give labels to all
  values and user not need to know format of
  log-file.
• Convinient presentation of requiered information.

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Schedule for complement of the project.

• 2-3 weeks complete all modules,
• 1 week to debug,
• 2-3 weeks for documentation.
• Last MOED A is on 7/7/2002.