XFERLOG style transfer logging?

[Fred Moore <fr...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

XFERLOG style logging is the de facto standard for FTP Server logging: it is
very compact,  many automation tools -- ...and a few human beings :-) -- are
able to parse it.

1\ Has someone managed to implement it e.g. via FTPLet?

2\ Are there thoughts to include such capability in base FTP Server?

I think the more general requirement here is to have a "formal" transfer log
which could be easily/reliably parsed by existing monitoring tools, XFERLOG
is an obvious option but not the only one (e.g. Microsoft IIS et al. use
Extended W3C Log format).

Cheers,
F.

Re: XFERLOG style transfer logging?

[Sai Pullabhotla <sa...@jmethods.com>]

Looks like we have all the information needed to produce the xferlog
available to Ftplets (using the code in the trunk). The only thinkg
that I think we are missing is the "email address" supplied for
anonymous logins. We probably need to add this to the FtpSession.

I agree with Niklas though, that it would be nice to have this option
in the core server.

I do not see anything in this log format which indicates the local
address that was used. I think it is important in some cases to know
which interface/IP address the remote host connected to (if we have
multiple listeners/multiple network cards). What do you guys think?

Thanks.

Sai Pullabhotla
www.jMethods.com




On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Fred Moore<fr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would XFERLOG satisfy most users need?
>
> ...in my opinion it does, moreover we'd probably be better off picking a
> widely adopted format such as XFERLOG rather than a smarter but with a niche
> adoption (or even worse a custom one!).
>
> Cheers,
> F.
>

Re: XFERLOG style transfer logging?

[Fred Moore <fr...@gmail.com>]

I created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FTPSERVER-329 "Support of
XFERLOG format transfer logging" for the record.

Cheers,
F.

Re: XFERLOG style transfer logging?

[Fred Moore <fr...@gmail.com>]

> Would XFERLOG satisfy most users need?

...in my opinion it does, moreover we'd probably be better off picking a
widely adopted format such as XFERLOG rather than a smarter but with a niche
adoption (or even worse a custom one!).

Cheers,
F.

Re: XFERLOG style transfer logging?

[Niklas Gustavsson <ni...@protocol7.com>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Fred Moore<fr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2\ Are there thoughts to include such capability in base FTP Server?

I think we should provide this in the core server.

> I think the more general requirement here is to have a "formal" transfer log
> which could be easily/reliably parsed by existing monitoring tools, XFERLOG
> is an obvious option but not the only one (e.g. Microsoft IIS et al. use
> Extended W3C Log format).

Would XFERLOG satisfy most users need? Looking at the format of it, it
should be easy enough to provide from FtpServer.

/niklas