Squid log monitor using Sarg

In this post i am going to install sarg monitoring tool in Squid proxy server.

[root@proxy ~]# yum install -y gcc make wget httpd

#wget wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sarg/sarg/sarg-2.3.8/sarg-2.3.8.tar.gz

#mv sarg-2.3.8.tar.gz /opt/

#cd /opt

#tar zxvf sarg-2.3.8.tar.gz

#cd sarg-2.3.7

#./configure

#make

#make install

#vi /usr/local/etc/sarg.conf

#Changes made for this lab

access_log /var/log/squid/access.log   # Squid Access Log file By Default Location

date_format e    # Date format will be DD-MM-YYYY

output_dir /var/www/html/access_reports

#service httpd restart

#chkconfig httpd on

#iptables –I INPUT –p tcp –dport 80 –j ACCEPT

finally you can generate SARG reports.

# sarg -x

Now, http://192.168.0.97/access_reports see the below screen shorts.

Enable cron for sarg report

#crontab -e

5 * * * *  /usr/local/bin/sarg -x

Troubleshooting

Error:

configure: gd.h was not found so the graphs won't be available in the report

configure: pcre.h was not found so the regexp won't be available in the hostalias

Solution:

# yum install pcre-devel

#  yum install gd-devel