Icecast Streaming Media Server

cmodyssey · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 63

Hi,

I'm looking for a stats generation engine that can read the icecast log files and apache log files.

The reason I'm looking for both is that I use icecast for the real time streaming of our radio and apache to serve the .mp3 files for podcasting/downloads etc.

If anybody has any experience with any stats generation engines, please could you give me your opinion.

If there's anybody who has used a stats generation engine for both icecast and apache, that would be even better, but of only icecast's or apache's logs has been analysed a stats generation engine, I'd still be keen to hear how you are getting on with it.

Many thanks in advance.

Richard.

bbk · Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 79

i use awstats and i am happy with what it can do already out of the box.

i never had really the time till now to get more out of it so i use it as it comes out of the box.

it can show you how many unique clients came to visit ether your mountpoints or accessed files trough icecast.

some years ago i had a setup with http://www.cacti.net/ where i had a icecast script gathering information about howmany listeners are on a mountpoint.

but the cacti solution is far more complicated. so i stick to the awstats for the moment.
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cmodyssey · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 63

Hi bbk,

Thank you for your recomendation of awstats, I've installed and set it up and the graphs it produces is detailed enough for what I am looking for.

It's great at analysing the icecast and apache log files.

Thanks again,

Richard.

Liquid_Squelch · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 56

how hard is it to set this up??

I'm moving my Icecast from a Windows platform over to Linux (finally) and want to start getting some real data from my feed points.

I'm pretty green to Linux, but really need to learn this stuff.. Thanks for the info.

bbk · Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 79

After learning a lot... Wink

i think you will be happy.

How hard it is depends on your setup.

I worked more on freeBSD than on Linux but as far as i know the installation... if you are using a Debian (or Ubuntu) will be like this:

Liquid_Squelch · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 56

Thanks for the info... I will have to look at some of the links you sent over after work.

I was planning on going with OpenSUSE on my desktop. It is what I have setup on my Laptop to play around with, and was hoping to continue to learn in the same distro

Thanks again for the reply.