Exclude specific IPs from DSpace Solr Statistics?

[James Michelich]

I am new to DSpace and Solr, but have been tasked with finding a way to exclude specific IPs (or IP ranges) from the pageview and download statistics in our DSpace 6 install (XMLUI).  The idea is to exclude stats generated by views from some of our internal departments.  Is this possible?  Thanks.

[James Michelich]

Our goal is to get a more accurate view of statistics around views and downloads of content in our institutional repository.  Thus, I'm attempting to find a way to filter out stats generated by accesses from certain people/departments internal to our organization.

[Alan Orth]

Dear James,

I only use block lists based on user agent strings, so I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like you can just drop a list of IPs in here:

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/tree/dspace-6_x/dspace/config/spiders

Check your dspace.log and you will see them being loaded.

Cheers,

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[James Michelich]

Hello Alan,

Thank you.  That's exactly what I needed.  I have created a new file with a list of IP addresses in the spiders directory.  I'm then using the dspace stats command line utility to mark the corresponding (existing) queries in Solr as spiders (flips isBot flag to true).  I'm hoping this will flow through and reflect in the usage statistics displayed through the XMLUI, but I don't have a good way to verify.  Any advice?  

Also, do you know if it's possible to define a block of ip addresses in the spiders txt file using a wildcard, i.e., 192.168.0.*?  Or will I need to enumerate them all for the range of ip's I want to flag?

Thanks,

James