Statistics Maintenance Settings

This page allows you to specify a number of settings related to Statistics and Maintenance.

Global Statistics Logging Settings
This section deals with the extent of statistics that are logged.

Reverse lookup the hostnames of viewers when not supplied
Where a viewer's hostname is not supplied, you can instruct OpenX to perform a lookup on the viewer's IP address to resolve a hostname for it. Storing hostnames allows you to see which hosts are retrieving the most banners.

Extract the viewer's Operating System and web browser using phpSniff
phpSniff is bundled with OpenX and determines the client's browser and system information. Note that presently this is rather resource-hungry and should be used only if the information it gathers is an essential requirement.

Global Prevent Statistics Logging Settings
If you don't want to keep track of click-throughs and impressions from certain computers you can add these to this setting. For example: you can add your own IP address to prevent your machine from influencing the statistics each time you visit your own website. You must type each hostname or IP address on a new line. Note that you can only use hostnames if they are provided by the server or by OpenX. If the hostname isn't available you can only use IP addresses. Instead of using the full hostname or IP address you can also use wild cards (i.e. *.altavista.com or 192.168.*).

Global Maintenance Settings
Default Ad Impression Connection Window & Default Ad Click Connection Window
These two settings control the default conversion 'window' used when creating a new tracker. The value you enter here (in seconds) is entered by default in the corresponding Default conversion rules fields in the Add new tracker page. Read about Conversion Tracking.

Global Priority Settings
Update advertisement priorities immediately when changes made in the UI
Select this checkbox to ensure priorites are updated immediately. When this setting is not selected, advertisement priorities are updated during the next scheduled maintenance.

E-mail Warnings
In this section, you can specify when and to whom email warnings should be sent.

The Enable qmail patch setting prevents a known bug in qmail that causes emails sent by OpenX to show the headers within the body of the email.

Remember to click Save Changes when you have completed specifying your settings.