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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News Traffic Generator reports
Message-ID: <9A~{L|@rpi.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 89 05:21:43 GMT
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I made a few changes to Erik Fair's NNTP syslog summarizer; it's
available to anyone that wants it.  I run it as part of my localdaily
script invoked by cron every morning at 7am.

I intend to re-invent an awk processor for C News's log, but haven't
gotten around to it yet.  Does someone else already have something
that gives a nice report after running over $NEWSCTL/log?

This morning's output from a pass of the awk script over a day of
syslogging, trimmed down some to save on bandwidth:

Dec 11 09:53:54 rpi nntplink[18450]: image.soe.clarkson.edu xfer /usenet/spool/misc/emerg-services/442: Interrupted system call
Dec 11 19:30:30 rpi nntpd[10386]: brutus.cs.uiuc.edu spawn: EOF before period on line by itself
Dec 11 22:17:43 rpi nntpxmit[11136]: nisc.nyser.net signal 15
Dec 12 06:44:41 rpi nntpxmit[14485]: nisc.nyser.net xfer: Bad file number
[...]

News Transmission Daemon Activity:
newsxd reinitialized once.

Article Reception        Offered      Took         Toss         Fail
Contacting Host           To Us    Total  Pct   Total  Pct   Total  Pct
leah.albany.edu            3513       10   0%    3503 100%       0   0%
[...]
------------------------- -----    ----------   ----------   ----------
TOTALS                    23829     5754  24%   18072  76%       3   0%

Article Transmission    Offered       Took         Toss         Fail
Host Contacted   	To Them    Total  Pct   Total  Pct   Total  Pct
leah.albany.edu            4115     4101 100%      14   0%       0   0%
[...]
------------------------- -----    ----------   ----------   ----------
TOTALS                    27955    20918  75%    7025  25%      71   0%

Outgoing Transmission Connexions         ------errors-------
System                     Conn    OK    NS   Net   Rmt  Pct
image.soe.clarkson.edu      156    96     0    58     2  38%
nisc.nyser.net              263   113     0   149     1  57%     [1]
crdgw1.ge.com               128    90     0    38     0  30%
[...]
------------------------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----
TOTALS                     1277  1024     1   249     3  20%

NNTP readership statistics
System                     Conn Articles Groups Post
*.its.rpi.edu                 3      510     52    2
*.ecs.rpi.edu                 9     1017    639    0
*.ecse.rpi.edu                1        0      0    1
*.cie.rpi.edu                43      963     86    1
*.rdrc.rpi.edu               22     1254     61    1
*.pawl.rpi.edu               29     2792    185   11
*.cs.rpi.edu                160     5181    601    2
*.ipl.rpi.edu                 1      141     13    2
------------------------- ----- -------- ------ ----
TOTALS                      268    11858   1637   20

nntpd timeouts
uwm.edu                       1
pawl14.pawl.rpi.edu           1
turing.cs.rpi.edu             2

[1] I find it very odd that nearly all of errors I get are from the
regional network.  Blargh.

Dave
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