SharePoint usage report

SharePoint provides a built-in method for determining the site usage (usage). Because the site content does not exist in the file system, IIS logging does not make much sense for determining the server load.

 

SharePoint's built-in usage analysis can be used to determine the site's usage.

 

By default, usage processing and loging are disabled. When logging is enabled, log files are stored in

C: \ Program Files \ common files \ microsoft shared \ Web Server Extensions \ 12 \ logs

By default, Sharepoint creates a log file for each web application.

Note that logging and processing are two independent configurations, because you can only enable logging without enabling processing. this is useful when you want to process this information through some custom applications.

The log file is created and stored in a folder named after the guid of the Web application. Under this folder, there are also subfolders named by date.

 

Note that the logging information is stored in the memory and then flushed to the disk file (for example, IIS restart) in various situations ).

 

A typical record looks like this:

1404bb44-b1db-44d3-9708-30afb049393a 00:00:21 http: // test10000pointserver/sites/test lists/tasks/active. aspx SharePoint \ System Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT; MS search 5.0 robot restart)

 

The first GUID is the site ID, followed by the timestamp, URL, requested page, user name, browser, and finally the accessed Web ID.

 

Why use SharePoint usage report? Does IIS log collect statistics of this type?

Because every time you download a document from a Sharepoint site, you will not see the access information record for this document in the IIS log. instead, the byte stream of the document is returned to the client's DLL file-owrsrv. DLL

 

The format of SharePoint site usage log document is not suitable for direct reading. The specific format is recorded in usage event logging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. it also contains the C ++ source code of the tool program that can compile and parse this document.

 

Configure usage reporting

Http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262541.aspx

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Usage event logging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb814929.aspx