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kev1952
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 Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: Realtime Monitoring |
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Is it possible to actually watch what a user is doing when on the server/website?
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Use any of the versions of Tail available to monitor the logfile in realtime. If you want to trace only a specific logged in user, you'll need a version that supports filters to filter by their IP or username.
http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=32754#32754
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loloyd
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: Consider LD Text File Monitor if you're running Windows |
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Get it from <http://home.loloyd.com/>.
LD Text File Monitor is an Open Source real-time file-content monitoring utility for Windows systems. It is designed to passively monitor a specific file for changes in its content and then dynamically displaying this information to the user. The display can be configured to follow a particular set of user-configurable rules, commonly referred to as a filter set.
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kev1952
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Thank you all. I've downloaded both monitoring programs and they seem to be what I wanted. I still wonder, tho', if it's possible to actually monitor them by having whatever they are doing (and whatever page they are on) echo'd to the screen (or browser) - in other words seeing the site as they see it in real-time?
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loloyd
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: You mean a snapshot? |
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kev1952:
Do you mean a snapshot of the page they are viewing, taken real-time and dynamically? How many snapshots do you think would you like on a single page that you're monitoring on your server side? I have seen an API that does that somewhere but I can't remember where I saw it. It takes a snapshot of search results though, thereby generating another set of log entries. However, what you are asking for, I think, is something very NEW. Maybe you can develop a software for that, sell it, and get RICHER. :D
Anonymoose:
Thanks for the idea on that beeping thing on every log file update. Another alternative to standalone *nix utils can be taken from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ - which features the entire set including of course the Tail util, and a native one for Windows at that. This means no need for Cygwin libraries or the like. This is just an added info though, not necessarily for you, whom I really believe is an advanced geek, but for the many more forum browsers here. :D Btw, I used your "Idiots..." line and quoted you in my website hehehe.
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kev1952
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: Re: You mean a snapshot? |
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| loloyd wrote: | | However, what you are asking for, I think, is something very NEW..... |
The idea is actually very old - it is the same principle as the old BBS software many years ago. What I'm asking is - is there a way of echoing the site to the local monitor, in real time, as a user browses through it?
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