RE: Usage Report show IP addr instead of computer names
- From: v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Terence Liu [MSFT])
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:43:41 GMT
Hello Oscar,
Thanks for posting here.
I understand that in the Server Usage Report, you want to IP addresses
instead of computer names are listed under the heading of "Web Activity by
Computer". If I have misunderstood the problem, please don't hesitate to
let me know.
First, I want to explain How the Server Usage Report work:
The Weblogging service receives IP address of the source and destination
from ISA/RAS of every Internet connection. It saves the IP addresses and
time stamp in the WebEvt.log file in "%windows%\temp". When the scheduled
report time (by default it's 4:30 AM every day) comes, a reverse DNS look
up is done to the source IP address to find the name of the machine. A
entry contains the source IP, destination IP, source machine name (if
available through reverse DNS look-up) and time of the connection will be
added to the MSDE database, then the webevt.log is deleted. If the reverse
DNS look up is successful, the machine name will show in the usage report,
otherwise the IP address will show. The IP address is always in the
database.
You may check if there are RPT records for those IP addresses in the
reverse lookup zone. To do so:
1. Click Start, click Run, type "dnsmgmt.msc" and click OK.
2. Expand your server\Reverse Lookup Zones\<your local subnet>.Subnet.
If the IP address list in the Reverse Lookup Zones, the IP address will be
resolved to computer name, and it will be listed as computer name instead
of IP address in the Server Usage Report. If there is no IP address list in
the Reverse Lookup Zones, it can not be resolved to computer name, so it
will appear as IP only.
Per my knowledge, we can not configure the Server Usage Report to only list
IP address but not computer names in Server Usage Report. I will do some
further research and discuss with others about it.
Hope info above helps.
Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or if you need
further assistance.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Have a nice day!
Best regards,
Terence Liu(MSFT)
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| From: "OscarVogel" <rtk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Subject: Usage Report show IP addr instead of computer names
| Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:22:53 -0600
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| Using SBS 2003.
|
| "Server Usage Report" includes "Web Activity by Computer" which shows
total
| & avg active hours for each computer. In the "Computer Name" column some
| computers are identified by their IP address. Others are identified by
| their computer name. And some appear once as the IP address and again as
| the computer name.
|
| I'm guessing that they all should appear as their computer name. And I'm
| also guessing that the IP addresses indicate some sort of name resolution
| problem. Is that correct? If so, what might be the problem that's
causing
| some to be identified by their IP addresses?
|
| (From the SBS I AM able to resolve addresses to host names using "ping
-a").
|
|
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