How many that file have been downloaded ?

[Raafat1991]

Hi guys...i'm looking for a tool tells me information about a certain file like :

1- how many that file have been downloaded ?
2- How much the data have been transmitted 3MB 3GB...etc of a single file and the total of my server (ubuntu server) ?


thank you .

[byStanderone]

...there is download monitor in the software package...not sure if that works also for servers...am on desktop

[lisati]

You might be able to do some analysis of your log files. Which one you look at will depend on what kind of server you are running. Are you running a web page, or are you sharing files?

[Raafat1991]

A web page and i'm running apache2 server .

[SeijiSensei]

To count up the number of downloads:

grep filename /var/log/apache2/access.log | wc -l

Once you know the number of downloads the total amount of traffic is simply

(number of downloads) X (size of file)

[Cheesemill]

For the total network utilization of your server you can use vnstat.

[Raafat1991]

To count up the number of downloads:

grep filename /var/log/apache2/access.log | wc -l

Once you know the number of downloads the total amount of traffic is simply

(number of downloads) X (size of file)

But what about the downloads that didn't upload all their bits ?

[SeijiSensei]

The log records show the amount of traffic exchanged. For instance,

10.10.10.10 - - [06/Aug/2012:11:01:39 -0400] "GET /images/welcome.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1533 "https://www.example.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1"

The "1533" is the number of bytes transferred in response to that request. In this case it is the size of "welcome.gif".

It's pretty rare that people cancel out in the middle of a download unless we're talking about files in the 100s of megabytes, and even then I'd be surprised if aborted downloads constituted more than a couple of percent of all transfers.

One solution is to use a web log parser like analog. It will construct reports that include the number of transfers for each file and the total amount of traffic involved.

[Raafat1991]

The log records show the amount of traffic exchanged. For instance,

10.10.10.10 - - [06/Aug/2012:11:01:39 -0400] "GET /images/welcome.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1533 "https://www.example.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1"

The "1533" is the number of bytes transferred in response to that request. In this case it is the size of "welcome.gif". It's pretty rare that people cancel out in the middle of a download unless we're talking about files in the 100s of megabytes, and even then I'd be surprised if aborted downloads constituted more than a couple of percent of all transfers. One solution is to use a web log parser like analog. It will construct reports that include the number of transfers for each file and the total amount of traffic involved.

Thank you that's a great advice *______*

[SeijiSensei]

Which "advice" exactly? Using analog?