Re: Convert Log files to Legacy format?

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Thanks Bill- I'll look into that program. I'll have to get some of my SQL
nerds to take a look at how it works. The CLI seems pretty clunky and I'm
not exactly sure what fields I need to extract. Sure would be nice if M$
wrote a nice GUI for that.

Jeremy

"Bill Burns" wrote:

> I don't know of a utility to convert the log files back to 4.1 format.
> However, MS provides a free utility called LogParser. It allows you to run
> SQL based queries on your log files. I have used this on the WMS9 version
> files.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/logparser/default.mspx
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> "JeremyWest" <unclepain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:90A75291-53F1-4F80-B196-54E751FC49EF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > We did an upgrade from Windows 2000 with the 4.1 version of Windows
> > Streaming
> > Server to Windows 2003 with Media Services 9 about 2 months ago. Recently
> > we
> > discovered that our Webtrends statistics program was not able to run
> > reports
> > on the log files that the streaming servers were generating. It seems
> > that
> > we are running an older version of WebTrends and it did not know how to
> > read
> > the new versions of the log file formats. We did discover how to change
> > the
> > formatting of the log files so that they are saved in Legacy 4.1 format
> > and
> > WebTrends is now working correctly with the new log files, however we have
> > almost 2 months of log files that we cannot read with our current
> > reporting
> > tools.
> >
> > So, 2 questions: 1- Is there a utility to convert the normal WMS9 log
> > files
> > into Legacy 4.1 format. 2- Is there another free utility we can use to
> > read
> > the contents of the normal log files to at least be able to generate a
> > report
> > for the last 2 months?
>
>
>
.

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