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Focus user agent examples on abnormal findings

Katrin Leinweber requested to merge doc-improve-user-agent-parsing-examples into master

What does this MR do?

The example commands without IP address are less useful than they could be. As this internal case showed today, admins would be better off extracting:

  1. more details about the request source right away,
  2. and focussing only on the top few requests.

Also, shifting the abnormal case of some 3rd-party ua popping up there more into focus, should help make the intent of these examples clearer.

It's unlikely that they are used during normal operations to confirm that indeed only the expected UAs appear. Instead, during an emergency situation, our example should yield more useful output than they currently do.

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Edited by Katrin Leinweber

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