Generating A Report From A Log File
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## Generating A Report From A Log File

To generate a report from a log file, you use the lr_log2report command. The usage of this command is

    $  lr_log2report dlf_converter logfile report

The first parameter is the Dlf Converter to use to handle the log file. There is one Dlf Converter by supported log format. To obtain the list of available convertesr, use

    $  lr_log2report --help dlf-converters

See the lr_log2report(1) man page for all the command details or simply issue `lr_log2report --help`.

Example 3.2. Generating a Report With lr_log2report

This is the way to generate a report in the text output format for a log file taken from an Apache™ log server.

    $ lr_log2report combined /var/log/apache/access_log ~/report.txt

### Selecting Output Format

Another output format than the default one (usually text) can be selected by using the `--ouput` switch with the lr_log2report command.

Example 3.3. Generating A HTML Report

To generate a HTML report from the same log file as above, you would use the following command:

    $ lr_log2report --output html combined/var/log/apache/access_log apache_report

This will create a `apache_report` containing the report. If the pl (that is the Ploticus command) is available, the HTML report will contain nice charts.

You can list the output-formats available on your system by running `lr_xml2report --help output-formats`.

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