Usage Analysis: Stsadm properties (Windows SharePoint Services)
Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Topic Last Modified: 2009-04-06
Usage analysis is not enabled by default. If you want to use the usage analysis features for your server, you must enable the usage analysis logging process. Log files are created daily to track usage information. When the log file is processed, a flag is added to indicate that is has been processed. If you do not want to track usage analysis data and you want to conserve disk space, you can turn off data logging for usage analysis.
By default, the log files are in %programfiles%\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\logs. Inside this directory is a folder for every Web application, and under those folders, folders for each day. You can specify any other location you prefer, and you can specify that up to 30 log files are created.
Note
If you choose a different log file location, you must be sure to give the STS_WPG user group Read, Write, and Update permissions to the directory. Without these permissions, the usage log files cannot be created or updated. For more information about setting permissions for a directory, see the Microsoft Windows Help system.
By default, the log files are set to be processed every day at 1:00 A.M. You can schedule the usage log to be processed at a more convenient downtime for your Web sites. For example, if your Web sites are primarily used by internal employees, you might schedule the log to be processed at night, when demand on the sites is lower than during working hours. If you have multiple servers, you can stagger the processing. For example, you can configure the processing to start at midnight, and stagger it by 15 minutes, so that server1 starts at 12:00 a.m., server2 starts at 12:15 a.m., server3 at 12:30 a.m., and so on.
Usage data is stored for 31 months. Daily information is stored for 31 days. The log files will not be deleted, even after processing.
Usage analysis processes rely on the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service to manage the timing of log processing. For more information about the Windows SharePoint Services Timer (previously called Microsoft SharePoint Timer), see Scheduling Timed Jobs (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=103322&clcid=0x409).
Note
When you configure usage analysis processing for a server, it takes effect for any existing Web applications. If you later add a Web application, you do not need to configure usage analysis processing to enable usage analysis for the new Web application.
The usage analysis properties are part of the setproperty and getproperty operations. The syntax for the setproperty operation is:
stsadm -o setproperty
-propertyname <property name>
-propertyvalue <property value>
**\[-url\] \<URL\>**
The syntax for the getproperty operation is:
stsadm -o getproperty
-propertyname <property name>
**\[-url\]** \<URL\>
Note
You can substitute -pn for -propertyname and -pv for -propertyvalue.
The following table describes the usage analysis properties.
| Property name | Description |
|---|---|
Job-usage-analysis: Stsadm property (Windows SharePoint Services) |
Lets an administrator set the time interval for usage processing. |
Usageprocessingenabled: Stsadm property (Windows SharePoint Services) |
Configures whether the usage analysis process is turned on or off. |