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Customizeable settings files

Analyzer uses a number of XML files to define properties of web resources and classes of visitors and pages. If you want to customize one of these files, you are welcome to do so.

When we release updates to Analyzer we may also release new configuration files with updated information. If you edit the configuration files directly then your edits will be lost when we update Analyzer. If you want to preserve your changes and manually merge any updated configuraiton files with your file after an update, you will need to copy the file which resides in the Program Files folder associated with Mach5 Analyzer, and paste it into your Projects directory. Put -custom into the name as described below. Analyzer will first look for a custom configuration file and use that if it exists rather than the built-in one.

Program files directory / browser.xml --> Project directory / browser-custom.xml

This file defines the browser from your log file user-agent string. Order is important. Analyzer uses the first matching browser string to identify the browser.

Program files directory / os.xml --> Project directory / os-custom.xml

This file defines the operating system from your log file user-agent string. Order is important as above.

Program files directory / searchengines.xml --> Project directory / searchengines-custom.xml

This file defines search engines identifiable by log file user-agent string. Order is important as above.

Program files directory / spider.xml --> Project directory / spider-custom.xml

This file defines search engine spiders for use in the spiders reports and for spider filtering.

filetypeidentification.xml

This file defines the class of files on your webserver based on the file extension. You can customize it manually, but you can also customize it directly in Analyzer through the global options

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