Let's just put this up front. Julian is cool. He made (open source) this little app, which will pull selective database activity information, if recorded, and put it on the screen or in a file. I've been trying to get it to work for batch processing for a couple of days and have cultivated a few tips for making it not crash. :-)
1: If you're using the > to specify an output path, the path must already exist.
2: If you're specifying a database in a sub directory, it helps to prepend the db.filepath info with a '\', like so:
dbactivity Server01 \apps\dev\mydb.nsf
3: If you want to process a bunch of databases, write a script and build a batch file. Or better yet, use mine. Simply call initBatBuild from an action or button or whatever. DBActivity seems to respond better to processing a single database at a time, rather than using a wild card for the db name. This way, you can specify a unique file name for each output .csv file.
4. If you're covering multiple servers, be aware of standard databases. Things like log.nsf will occur in the root of each server by default. When you run multiple server batches, you'll overwrite the output files for these databases unless you modify the script library to include the server name in the file name... which isn't a bad idea.
5. Don't run this from the server. If something goes amiss, down comes the server.
6. If you know there are spaces in file names, or other characters acceptable to Domino but not acceptable to DOS, replace them ahead of time in the folder and file names if practical. So far, I haven't found a way around this. Even running manually, this fails.
7. If you don't have access to a database, running in batch mode will also cause a blow up.
As I perfect the process, I'll add any other caveates...
The next piece of making this really useful is writing a .csv import routine so I can use a notes view to clean up the data a bit... then I'll be able to do what I've been aiming to do all along: report on user activity levels, by user, across all databases. Not a bad bit of kludging for using free tools and sweat. ;-)
Peace