Re: [squid-users] squid reverse proxy and UTM urchin stats

Emilio Casbas wrote:
> I know that this is a question more related to urchin software,
> but maybe someone in this list have successfully configured urchin
> software (UTM enabled) with a squid reverse proxy configuration.
>
> The Urchin UTM installation is available only with Apache and IIS,
> http://www.google.com/support/urchin45/bin/topic.py?topic=7355
> but it would be helpful have instructions with squid as reverse proxy
> too.

From http://www.google.com/support/urchin45/bin/answer.py?answer=28710...

The second important function of the UTM Sensor is to uniquely identify
both sessions and unique visitors. Through a patent-pending combination
of browser cookies, the Sensor detects and initializes the unique
visitor and session identifiers allowing exact monitoring of new and
returning visitors regardless of service provider proxy behavior. Most
service providers take advantage of proxying by recycling IP addresses
and clustering users behind firewalls. This can cause problems with
normal logfile tracking, which typically utilizes the IP address as an
identifier of the user.

...so your accelerator setup should have no effect on Urchin's analysis
of your Apache logs.

>
> The squid version we are playing to is squid-2.6-Stable12 with a common
> logformat modified such as:
>
> logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" "%{Referer}>h"
> "%{User-Agent}>h" "%{Cookie}>h
>
> But it isn't working with urchin.
>
> Meanwhile I'll ask for support to urchin in order to get a squid
> configuration.
>
> Have anyonone configured urchin UTM with squid as reverse proxy?

I have not, and given the information above, wouldn't bother trying.
*shrug*

>
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Emilio C.
>

Chris
Received on Thu May 03 2007 - 17:21:45 MDT