Sunday, September 13, 2009

Internet Monitoring With SARG and Squid On Windows

SARG aka Squid Analysis Report Generator is a nice little tool that analyses Squid's access.log files and creates a management friendly report along with graph.

This guide is for someone who have already configured SARG on Linux box.
  1. Install Squid on Windows. You can follow this post squid-on-windows
  2. SARG port for windows is available in the SARG website itself SARG. Or download it by clicking here.
  3. Unzip it in C:\sarg
  4. Edit sarg.conf file inside c:\sarg\etc
    1. Edit access_log
    2. graph option
    3. output_dir where your web server can be pointed.
    4. Others that you think is important. This is very simple file with all needed description.
  5. Make your scheduled task to run SARG and rotate Squid.

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