Topic: Instant Messenger

[Steven D. Leeke]

Is there a way to control the use of Instant Messaging apps on an e-smith network?  I.e. to allow or disallow the use of MSN IM, AOL IM/ICQ, or Yahoo Messenger?  If allowed, is there a way to log the messages?

Steve

[Patrick B]

Steve,

I'm pretty sure you can setup your firewall filters to block access on certain ports which handle the Instant Messaging traffic, but I haven't set this up yet (hoping I don't have to go that far with my users, BUT.....)

I'd like to know the answer to your second question - logging the IM traffic for admin purposes, to see who is using IM and see how long, what they are "chatting" about, etc.

Anybody have any ideas??  Thanks.

Regards,
Patrick