Chapter 8 Search Attributes: Reports

The Reports section allows you to monitor your search server. You can see a summary of its activity: what sites were searched, what URLs were excluded and why, detailed information about URLs visited by the robot, and what your end users are interested in.

Starting Points

The robot will visit all the enabled sites every time it starts. Table 8-1 lists the Reports Starting Points attributes. The table contains three columns: the first column identifies the attribute, the second column provides the default value for the attribute, and the third column describes the attribute.

Table 8-1 Reports Starting Points Attributes
Attribute	Default Value	Description
Enabled	Current value of site.	Yes or No. This is set on the Robot/ Sites page.
Starting Point	Chosen URL:80	Link brings up chosen URL.
in site definition	Chosen URL	Links to Robot/ Sites edit page.
Depth	Lists selected level of search.	1-n Set on the Robot/ Sites edit page.

Excluded URLs

This page shows a list of robot runs. To display a list of reasons URLs were excluded, select a robot run to examine, select View Selected, then select one of the Reasons for Exclusion. Displayed is a list of the excluded URLs for that reason. Duplicate and warning exclusions have been removed.

Table 8-2 lists the Reports Excluded URLs attributes. The table contains three columns: the first column identifies the attribute, the second column provides the default value for the attribute, and the third column describes the attribute.

Table 8-2 Reports Excluded URLs Attributes
Attribute	Default Value	Description
Log	Lists log from most recent run.	Lists all run logs available.
Count	Numbers	List of numbers with reasons for exclusion.
Reason for Exclusion	List of reasons sites have not been allowed. Each reason is linked to a list of all the URLs that were excluded for that reason.	Filter rules, file not found, site not allowed, protocol not allowed, errors, duplication are some of the reasons URLs were excluded.

Robot Advanced Reports

This page gives you access to a number of different reports from the robot. Select from a drop down list to get information for chosen report to show up. The Refresh button gets the current information.

Table 8-3 lists the Reports Robot Advance Reports attributes. The table contains three columns: the first column identifies the attribute, the second column provides the default value for the attribute, and the third column describes the attribute.

Table 8-3 Reports Robot Advance Reports Attribute
Attribute	Default Value	Description
Advanced Robot Reports	Version	Version, DNS Cache Dump, Performance, Servers Found-All, Server Found-RDM, Status-Current Configuration, Status -Database (internal), Status-Libnet, Status -Modules, Status-Overview, URLs-ready for extraction, URLs-ready for indexing, URLs- waiting for filtering (URL pool), URLs- waiting for indexing, all reports.

Log Files

This page allows you to view the entries or specific lines from a log file. Drop down list of log files. Enter the number of lines you want to be displayed when you select View button.

Table 8-4 lists the Reports View Log Files attributes. The table contains three columns: the first column identifies the attribute, the second column provides the default value for the attribute, and the third column describes the attribute.

Table 8-4 Reports View Log Files Attributes
Attribute	Default Value	Description
View this logfile	Excluded URLs (filter)	Excluded URLs (filter), RD Manager (rdmgr), RDM Server (rdmsvr), Robot Activities (robot), Search Engine (searchengine), User Queries (rdm).
Number of lines	25	A number you can enter to display the most current entries in the log file.