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[Tom Throckmorton <>]

On 2/5/09 3:34 PM, Seth Peery wrote:
> Fellow NDT-users,
> 
> I'm hoping to resurrect an archived discussion on the parsing of
> web100srv.log.  The messages below, from 2006, were the most recent that
> I could find that addressed a method of figuring out which log entries
> corresponded to what NDT variables.  I'm wondering if there has been any
> additional development in this area.
> 
> I developed the "Community Broadband Map" tool at Virginia Tech
> (http://www.ecorridors.vt.edu/maps/broadbandmap.php), and I've merged
> NDT with a number of other web-based maps since the original project.
> At the time, I did not pull all the variables from the applet into the
> PHP that does the DB insert when a user runs a speed test - just
> timestamp, c2sspd and s2cspd.  Now I'm hoping to retroactively parse
> web100srv.log into a format that can be imported into a database and
> then associated with the existing entries by making a key out of the IP
> address and timestamp, which should give me a unique identifier. 
> 
> We've got the development resources here to construct a parser for this
> log file if need be (which could then of course be shared with the
> community), but before I embarked on this, I wanted to see if anyone has
>   a) some documentation of the order of the variable names in the log
> file beyond the comments in web100srv.c 
>   b) an active effort to develop a parser with which we might
> collaborate

*waves northward*

Hello Seth,

I've thought about doing something similar before, and have my eyes on
the code added in ndt-3.4.x that provided db logging (which Rich refers
to in the original thread you included) - see ndt-$ver/src/ndt_odbc.*
I've not yet tried it myself...

Sounds like a good starting point and/or opportunity to collaborate....

Cheers,

-tt




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