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Practical uses of IISLogs - 2 sections

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You might be wondering, now what?! How do I actually get some benefit from IISLogs?  The goal of the article is provide a practical side to actually getting some benefit from using IISLogs.   A little bit of history first, I first thought of the idea for IISLogs when running ASPFree.com.   ASPFree.com was a popular website, the traffic averaged 15,000 or so users a day.  It was awesome to have a popular site but one of the drawbacks, as the site grew so did the log files.  First the log files were 250 meg a day, then 350 meg and finally almost 500 meg per day.  Not properly handled in 30 days, this would chew up between 15 and 30 gig of space and that was just one website on the server.  In today's world, the cost per gig is just a few dollars, its almost a commodity even if your using a SAN (Storage Area Network) or NAS (Network Attached Storage).  Now take this one server example of running ASPFree and # the number of servers at a typical company or ISP.  This small problem can quickly become a headache.  As your enterprise and number of servers grow, providing a constant cookie cutter approach is one of the keys to success, in my experience anyway!

As I developed IISLogs, one the things I wanted was just to get it up and going, configure the parameters and forget it.  Every now and then provide a simple report via an email to remind me things are still working and saving disk space.  So this became the motto (Install, Configure, Forget).      I've found the simplest and most effective way is follow these few steps.  Now this isn't all the capability of IISLogs but its a start to helping recover disk space.  

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Phase 2 - Configuration