Reducing the size of the Proxy log

Right, I have more or less completed an analogue to our Linux boxes with a Mikrotik router, one part of which is a Squid proxy. On these boxes we keep logs (obviously) of traffic that goes through the system. That’s all well and good, and I have sorted this out with RouterOS’s proxy as well.

Except…

The logs that RouterOS (4.0beta3) produces are HUGE. All I really need are a series of time->address->page->miss/hit entries, which the log (enabling web-proxy log) duly provides. But it also gives me a whole load of debugs that aren’t necessary for our requirements.

What I’d like to know is, is it possible to reduce all this data down?

The “account” entries seem to give me everything I need (in a format suspiciously similar to Squid as well, hmmm), but all these “debugs” mess things up and I want to be able to shoot them.

There’s obviously something silly I’m missing here so could anyone point me in the right direction please? Thanks.

…and indeed it was just something silly.

Feel a bit of a fool here but if anyone else has this issue here’s the solution: topics=accounts,web-proxy. The system ANDs the two together and produces the desired result.

Excellent, I now have a faster, cheaper and probably more stable version of the current solution, with ADSL backup via Draytek’s excellent Vigor 120 PPPoA bridge coupled to one of these, ready to go. Just need to work out what the simplest way of getting a SIP proxy onto these is and we’re good to go :slight_smile: