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  • Re: Fastecho Stat

    From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Paul Quinn on Saturday, November 01, 2014 21:46:16
    On 11/01/14, Paul Quinn pondered and said...

    Quit using the -R all the time. Only when you're finished extracting
    the stats from the current status of the data. :)

    But if I do this I end up getting aggregate data for more than one day -
    right? And in doing so loose the ability to pull data for just one 24 hour period - I think?

    Is there some other tool scanning posts outbound? Since it seems that
    FE may not be doing it, then whatever is isn't updating FE's data.

    Hmm... not at the HUB level that FE is looking after. It's set up to toss echoarea packets to downlinks when packets comes in from my uplink.

    Only the posts FE is making to a stats echo I set up for the NZ areas are
    being seen by FE. FE is only looking only at the HUB .JAM bases. I conclude that FE would need to see posts made directly to those JAM bases in order for the outbound stats to be counted. I think all the inbound stats are the
    tossed packets from my uplink. I guess inbound packets from downlinks are
    also seen as inbound stats.


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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Paul Hayton on Saturday, November 01, 2014 20:01:34
    Hi! Paul,

    On 11/01/2014 09:46 PM, you wrote:

    Quit using the -R all the time. Only when you're finished extracting
    the stats from the current status of the data. :)

    But if I do this I end up getting aggregate data for more than one day - right? And in doing so loose the ability to pull data for just one 24 hour period - I think?

    Yes. You're only able to pull stats since the last "-R" was used. So, your original statement "seems I can't have it both ways" stands true.

    This isn't one of FE's strong points. It is a tosser/scanner & packer tool, firstly, after all.

    From my notes, I can see that I switched over to weekly stats back in '97. Back then there wasn't a lot going on then, to justify 24-hourly reports... it seems.

    Is there some other tool scanning posts outbound? Since it seems
    that FE may not be doing it, then whatever is isn't updating
    FE's data.

    Hmm... not at the HUB level that FE is looking after. It's set up to toss echoarea packets to downlinks when packets comes in from my uplink.

    Ah, I think I 'see' what you're talking about now. The "pass through" traffic?
    That stuff may only show in the system link summaries and not on a per echo basis.

    Only the posts FE is making to a stats echo I set up for the NZ areas are being seen by FE. FE is only looking only at the HUB .JAM bases. I
    conclude
    that FE would need to see posts made directly to those JAM bases in
    order for the outbound stats to be counted. I think all the inbound stats are the tossed packets from my uplink. I guess inbound packets from downlinks are also seen as inbound stats.

    Yes, the 'Export' posts are those locally generated by a BBS (if any) or your BATch scripts whenever FE does the scan out. E.g., my own posts on *this* node
    do not show in my main node's stats. Only as 'Import' traffic.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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