Graphing Out The Mail
Category Administration
It's important to be able to map out the mail flow--which server is getting the most mail, what day's are the heaviest, etc. The good news is that Domino records the mail statistics, the bad news is that the numbers are cumulative. If I get 10,000 pieces of mail on Monday, and 4,000 on Tuesday, then Wednesday starts at 14,000. My graph of mail flow is one, long, irregular slope.
What I need is to be able to purge out the statistics every 24 hours. It is possible to run a "set stat" command to many statistics, and they will revert to zero. Many work, most do not. I'm building up a list of statistics which can be reset, but it's a long-suffering exercise of tedium because different OS'es have different stats, and running certain tasks adds new statistics.
In the meantime I am using an indirect file on the server (I'll call it "stats.ind") and a program file that runs the stats.ini near midnight, every night. The stats.ind only has two lines in it:
Now, I can create historical charts which give me a better idea of how much traffic occurred on a specific day.
I still have one riddle to solve: my historical charts will only go to 2 days when the data in my statrep.nsf is storing 14 days. I'd like to be able to graph out a week at a time.
Let me know if you have any ideas on extending the historical charting beyond 2 days.
It's important to be able to map out the mail flow--which server is getting the most mail, what day's are the heaviest, etc. The good news is that Domino records the mail statistics, the bad news is that the numbers are cumulative. If I get 10,000 pieces of mail on Monday, and 4,000 on Tuesday, then Wednesday starts at 14,000. My graph of mail flow is one, long, irregular slope.
What I need is to be able to purge out the statistics every 24 hours. It is possible to run a "set stat" command to many statistics, and they will revert to zero. Many work, most do not. I'm building up a list of statistics which can be reset, but it's a long-suffering exercise of tedium because different OS'es have different stats, and running certain tasks adds new statistics.
In the meantime I am using an indirect file on the server (I'll call it "stats.ind") and a program file that runs the stats.ini near midnight, every night. The stats.ind only has two lines in it:
set stat mail.totalkbtransferred
set stat mail.totalrouted
Now, I can create historical charts which give me a better idea of how much traffic occurred on a specific day.
I still have one riddle to solve: my historical charts will only go to 2 days when the data in my statrep.nsf is storing 14 days. I'd like to be able to graph out a week at a time.
Let me know if you have any ideas on extending the historical charting beyond 2 days.
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