Who is visiting your web site? I can tell you who is visiting ours.
Web Hits Will Show You Who is Visiting Your Web Site
Software to Convert IIS Logs to Easy to Read Reports
Who is Looking for a File on Your Web Site and No Luck
Do You Know What is Downloaded from Your Web Site
Who is Downloading What from Your Web Site. Web Hits
Software to Convert IP addresses into Company Names
Know What Pages Are Not Being Downloaded Correctly
Automatic Lookup in ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AfriNIC
HTML Web Hits Reports with Detailed and Summary
Email Summary Web Hits Report to Many People at Once
Monitor a Single Domain or Multiple Domains
This is software that no IT department should be without!
IT managers can use the data from Web Hits for metrix reports. Web Hits is one of our Internet applications that serves the whole enterprise. Web Hits is one of our one-of-a-kind Internet tools to generate reports for who downloaded what.
If you have any problems with communicating with other computers in the network, disable all software firewalls and try it, if it works while the software firewall is disabled, then you will need to configure the software firewall to allow share folders. We recommend you use a hardware firewall instead of software firewalls anyway. The external hardware firewalls are generally much faster! You may already have the hardware firewall such as a Linksys Router. If you need to keep the software firewall, then follow the venders instructions to allow shared folders to work!
This is also something that Network Security should not be without!
To install Web Hits, download the software, webhits14.msi file from the CD. Run this file, and select the defaults for the installation folders.
To run the software, double click 'My Computer', 'C:', 'Program Files', 'WebHits', webhits14.exe. For the trial version, it will be twebhits14.exe.
Click the Configure button.
The first thing you should see is a Zulu Offset. This will be set automatically if you have our World Time Alarm Clock on your machine. For Central Time this is going to be -5 during Daylight Saving Time, and -6 the rest of the year.
Seconds between Polls. If you want the data to be refreshed, you can put a value in this box. For example: 60 would update the data every 60 seconds.
List Only. Double Click to Remove list. If you have any values in this, this is the only thing that will show up. For example: You want to see only .exe files that are being downloaded you can type in a exe to the text box to the right of the list, Click the Add to List Only button, and now you will only see the exe files. This also has another very important use, that is you can type in - 404 and see what pages are being requested and failed. The reason any given pages might fail could be almost anything, but one of the most common causes is a search engine was looking for a page that no longer exists.
You will see a text filed on the right just under a button labeled Single Click IP. What this means is if you single click the text field below with the IP Address in it, it will add that address to the ignore list.
If you click the button marked Single Click IP, the Caption will change to Double Click IP and now you will have to double click the text field to add the IP address to the ignore list.
To remove an IP from the ignore list, just click it for the Ignore Hits from List that is right under the text box in question.
There are good reasons to ignore IP addresses. We recommend adding your own local IP addresses to the list. For example: You could add 192.168.1. to the list and it will ignore all matches! So if you have a visitor from 192.168.1.100 it will be ignored because it matches.
About half way down on the configuration screen you will see Add or Remove Log Files. This is where you can select the actual log files in question. The Site Name is something you type in. Keep it under 12 characters. This text is what will show up in your web hits report for a given log file. Keep in mind the log files are the actual IIS log files that already exist. If you are setting up new web sites to monitor set them up in IIS before setting up Web Hits.
You will see a text box labeled Ignore Text. We keep .jpg and .gif in our ignored text, because we do not want each .jpg or .gif file to generate a web hit. In some of our configuration files, we also have robots.txt file ignored. The robots.txt file is looked at by web crawlers to see what pages your webmaster would not want them to list. If you do not have a robots.txt file, the crawler will assume all sites it finds, are fare game! We do not have any robots.txt files.
Still going down the screen a little more, you have an option to setup a sound file. The sound file can be used to make a noise for every time a file is downloaded. For example: Hackers are often trying to download a file called cmd.exe. cmd.exe is the command line for windows. This is always someone trying to take control of your computer.
We have different files that we use different sounds for. For example: We like that cash register sound for every item purchased!
The SMTP server can be many choices. Generally, this should be the same as your email SMTP. If you are not sure, you can even set up the SMTP server to work with IIS. But you must restrict relay to your local IPs are your machine will become a spammer tool from hell! That is not an overstatement.
Email From is the Email address this will show as from when Web Hits emails the Web Hits reports. This can pretty much be anything you want, but make sure to put @ in the mix such as webits@householdsoftware.com so the mail server will think it is a valid email address. If the SMTP server does not see a @ in the address it will not work.
Mail To List. Just type an email address in the Add to Mail to List, Click the Add Email to List button, and you will the email address in question will be added to the list. I would have reports going to all managers and the entire IT department.
Destination Files and Path for HTML files. This is where the HTML reports are going to be save to. If you want to make this information available to everyone in the business unit, store them on a share.
We have many uses for Web Hits. We keep it on one of our web servers, and we have it on each of our PCs.
On the server we have Web Hits update running every 3 minutes, using Schedule Execute. The server configuration generates reports at 4 every morning. You can have anything you want.
We will send you World Time and Schedule Execute with your WebHits CD or download.
There are two main reports Web Hits will do. First is the summary report which looks kind of like:
You can see with the detailed report, you will know the exact time your visitors came, and exactly what they downloaded.
If you need an easy way to pars through thousands of lines in IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services) logs then, Web Hits is the solution.
If you are interested in learning who is visiting your web site, and you want to see exactly what they are downloading, Web Hits is the answer.
Web Hits is an application designed to keep you and your staff informed about who is visiting your web sites. The information that Web hits can provide can be priceless. We do not know of any ISPs web log reports that give you anywhere near the detail you get with Web hits. This could be used as part of a web hosting service. Web Hits could also be used with customer provided logs. Here again a service using the Web Hits software.
Web Hits uses the IIS logs (Microsoft Internet Information Services) to create some very interesting reports. The IIS logs are what is created by Windows. In their native form, the
logs will tell you what IP address downloaded what file at any given Zulu time.
In the Web Hits report you will see what company (by name) downloaded what web page and at what local time! You can filter your reports so as to only get reports on data that you actually care about.
Features:
Web Hits reports all contain the total number of hits based on Web Hits configuration. Day to day totals can help everyone in the enterprise to evaluate web site traffic.
Network administrators will find the speed and ease of use very helpful. Web Hits can be used for near real time monitoring. A couple of uses that network types might have, is you may have the Web Hits application refresh the screen every 30 seconds (this can actually be as little as one second or as much as days or weeks). For example, you could watch for cmd.exe and know in a few seconds that someone is trying to hack into your system. You could also use this to monitor any special interest downloads you wish to know about immediately!
Web developers will find the information that Web Hits can deliver very useful in spotting trends. Files that are requested and not found are displayed and easy to understand. You may also use Web Hits in near real time to watch for new pages getting downloaded by clients.
HR (Human Resources) can see what companies are going to your jobs site! HR can also see what information is read over and over again by employees.
Business Development can see what companies are checking us out! They can also see specifically what companies are more likely to need our services.
Management at all levels may see what customers, employees, and potential customers are reading on our site. Providing management with real feedback. For example, if you create a site that is almost never visited, you may wish to get rid of it. On the other hand if a site or a page is visited often, you may want to put more, like, pages on your site.
You may monitor several web servers from any given machine in a network. You may have Web Hits software on a PC or server.
You may have one or several Web Hits applications running monitoring one or several domains.
You may ignore any IP addresses you wish. For example, you will probably want to ignore your own IP addresses. You may do a single click to add an IP address to the ignore list.
Makes finding hacking attempts very easy! Generally you can monitor for .exe to see hacking attempts. Most of the hacking attempts that we have seen have been the attempt to call cmd.exe from a remote computer.
Automatically delete old logs (you may also set it to not).
Convert all times to local time. Zulu time is the default.
Look up each IP address in the local database for Company name and Country.
Web Hits does require Internet Explorer to be installed and to have scripts disabled on the machine you run it on.
For each IP address that is not in the local database yet, Web Hits will look up each IP address in the ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers), RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre), APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre), LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry), or AfriNIC (Africa Network Information Center) databases as necessary.
Automatically converts data from the ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, and AfriNIC to allow data to be stored on local hard drives.
Automatically saves new data to database. User may turn this off.
Automatically looks up data. User may turn this off.
Reports may be generated automatically.
Reports may be emailed automatically. There is no client email required. You only need to identify the SMTP server for automatically emailing reports.
Reports may be automatically published to your web site. Summary format, and Detailed format.
In each configuration, you may have as many email addresses as you wish. From a Web Hits standpoint, all reports are sent out one per email. You do not have to worry about bcc copies to people. Even if you have 20 people listed to get one report, Web Hits will actually send out 20 different emails. So you will not ever be sending email addresses to people that do not need them.
Command Line Options are:
webhits14.exe /delete ok
This tells Web Hits that it is okay for the application to delete the IIS logs after the report is finished. As a matter of good practice, we recommend setting this only to the last report you do for the day. In our tests we used live data. You could use off line logs to avoid deleting critical data by mistake.
webhists14.exe /run report
This tells Web Hits to automatically run the report in question. This will be emailed to each person on the list one at a time. If you automatically run the report, Web Hits will automatically terminate when it is done.
If you select the /run report and /delete ok at the same time, the report will be run, then the IIS logs will be deleted, then the application will exit.
webhits14.exe /configfile (any text)
If you use the configfile option, it should be followed by a short name. We recommend short text names without spaces or punctuation.
It is not mandatory to have any such configuration file. If you are using the Web Hits application for the same report everyday, and the recipients of the report do not change, you may use Web Hits without a configuration file.
Keep in mind most of the options in the report can be changed from one configuration to another, thus offering a substantial increase in flexibility from previous versions of Web Hits.
webhits14.exe /update database
If you select /update database option, Web Hits will start, run through all of the IP addresses that have visited your site, look up each IP address in the local database, and for those that are not in the local database, Web Hits will query the ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, and AfriNIC databases to update the local database. Here again, this is a totally automatic function. After the database is updated, Web Hits will exit.
If your site is very busy, you do not have time to look at each of these thousands of entries and look them up in ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers), or other databases. This can take hours to accomplish each day!
Web Hits installation is $100.00 for those of you in the Gainesville, Texas area. I will travel but the customer has to pay for the travel cost as well.
The price for Web Hits only seems high compared to other software we have on the web site, but for what you get, its a damn good price.
We will not hammer you with product activation, or even use any copy protection for our software. You paid for it, you should copy it. We understand the need to backup data!
We will not even bother you with product IDs.
After you buy your software, it is yours.
You may one to have Web Hits running on more than one machine, I do. Here again, you can have it running on as many machines as you wish without additional 'licenses'.
You may not make copies for anyone outside your enterprise.
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System Requirements:
You will need Internet Explore for the Help Screen
350 MHz or faster
256 Megabytes RAM
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Operating Systems Tested on:
Windows Vista
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 2003 Server
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