SharePoint usage blob parsing

Saturday, September 11, 2004

Usage data can be retrieved from an SPWeb by calling GetUsageData(). Problem is that only 2000 records for the site are returned. There is also a GetUsageBlob RPC call that returns all information, but the format of the blob was not documented. Until now.

At Microsoft downloads: Windows SharePoint Services: Usage Blob Parser (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8ed64398-4992-47cb-9075-afec32060986&DisplayLang=en)

Quote: "Use this sample download to retrieve the daily and monthly usage BLOBs that are processed from the front-end Web servers in a deployment of Windows SharePoint Services. The Usage BLOB Parser sample demonstrates how to use the GetUsageBlob RPC method to return usage data and how to parse the data."

It is a pity the code is in C++, but the file usagedata.cpp contains the info about the format of the blob data.

I could not get the tool working even on my local portal due to unauthorized exceptions. The info should be enough however to parse the data in a c# program doing the GetUsageBlob RPC call.

34 Comments

Hi Serge,

It looks like it's been a long time since you posted this, but, in case someone's interested I wrote a C# parser for the usage BLOB. It's posted on my blog.

Cheers,
Diego

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