Sawmill X 7.2.8 review
DownloadSawmill is a powerful, hierarchical log analysis tool, wellsuited for web server access and referrer logs, but canprocess almost any log.
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Sawmill is a powerful, hierarchical log analysis tool, wellsuited for web server access and referrer logs, but canprocess almost any log. It runs as a CGI program on yourweb server, and publishes an intuitive graphical userinterface which can be used from any web browser toconfigure and run Sawmill, or to view the statistics pages.
The statistics pages are hierarchical, attractive, and heavily crosslinked for easy navigation. Complete documentation is built directly into the program. Sawmill provides an extensive set of features, including a persistent database, fine control over the appearance of stats pages, and versatile log filtering options.
Here are some key features of "Sawmill X":
Easy To Use
Extensive Documentation
Live Reports & Graphs
Package of Powerful Analysis Tools
Attractive Statistics
Database Driven
Advanced User Tracking by WebNibbler(tm)
Very Fast
Easy To Install
Highly Configurable
Works With a Variety of Platforms
Processes Almost Any Log File.
What's New:
Bugs fixed:
Fixed a bug where date/time information could not be displayed as a pie chart; it would always appear as a bar or line graph, even if a pie chart was requested.
Fixed a bug where numerical fields of type float and aggregation operator "sum" would be truncated to about 2 billion (2GB), or it would be wrapped to smaller and possibly negative numbers.
Fixed a bug where non-derived database fields with no corresponding log fields in Netgear Security Log Format caused errors during report generation.
Improved the "beta" plug-in for the Backup Exec Log Format (XML). The plug-in now handles CDATAs, multi-line tags and extremely large numbers of backed-up files.
Fixed a bug where the text of the Use Sawmill button in the windows Sawmill.exe program was not internationalizable.
Fixed a bug which would give a "no such directory" error after connecting to a password-protected share through the File Browser, if the share name contained a $ (the share was correctly connected, but was not correctly displayed on the next page).
Fixed a problem where Windows sometimes tried to start Sawmill in C:, when running as a service; this caused it to fail. SawmillService.exe now explicitly changes to the installation directory before running SawmillCL.exe.
Fixed a bug where 24-bit screen depths were not reported in the Screen Depths report.
New features:
Added "BETA" support for Separ URL Filter Log Format.
Added an improved "beta" plug-in for Helix Universal Proxy log format.
Added "BETA" support for Netgear FVL328 Log Format (logging to syslog).
Added "BETA" support for Web Sense Log Format.
Added improved "BETA" plug-ins for Argosoft Mail Server Log Format to support a format variation and dd-mm-yyyy dates.
Added support for version 200A to "beta" plug-in for FortiGate Log Format.
Added "BETA" support for Aventail Web Access Log Format.
Added "BETA" support for IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL Log Format.
Enhanced Sidewinder Firewall and Sidewinder Syslog formats to track more fields, and to group reports.
Added "BETA" support for SiteMinder Policy Server Log Format.
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