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Excluding IP Addresses fron Analysis in WebTrends

Hi all,

Using WebTrends 7.0 to analyze IIS logfiles.  Trying to exclude internal IP addresses from the web activity reports to get more accurate reporting.  WT allows us to specify IP address masks.  But not all are working.  So do but others do not.  For example, you would think that 192.168.4.23 would be taken care of from 192.168.4.* but it is not.  It still shows up in the reporting.

This is what  WT allows us to do to exclude IP addresses:

"This filter will EXCLUDE log activity that matches at least one value from each of the following filter elements:
User Address = 192.168.3.* | 192.168.4.* | 192.168.4.23 | 192.168.5.* | 192.168.9.* | 10.126.2.* | 192.168.3.119 | 69.64.173.21 | 69.64.173.*"

Any ideas what we're doing wrong ?

Thanks,

John
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Hi RK,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.  But I was not looking for marketing material on WebTrends or Funnel Web or a comparison between the two.  We use WebTrends and I was looking for an answer to the specific question above.

Meanwhile, we figured out the problem.  We needed to regenerate the report profile after we made the changes to exclude the IP address masks above.

Thanks,

John
Actually, we found other problems with this.  The documentation said one thing and the window where you actually specify IP addresses to exclude, offers a different solution.  Also, it cannot use asterisks as IP address wildcards (*) either.  Instead of using pipe symbols as separators ( | ),  we needed to use a space and everything worked fine.  

So this...

"This filter will EXCLUDE log activity that matches at least one value from each of the following filter elements:
User Address = 192.168.3.* | 192.168.4.* | 192.168.4.23 | 192.168.5.* | 192.168.9.* | 10.126.2.* | 192.168.3.119 | 69.64.173.21 | 69.64.173.*"

became this...

"This filter will EXCLUDE log activity that matches at least one value from each of the following filter elements:
User Address = 192.168.3.0-255 192.168.4.0-255 192.168.5.0-255 192.168.9.0-255 10.126.2.0-255 69.64.173.0-255"

and it worked.

Thanks,

John
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