Topic: Newbie Help

[Oldphool]

I am trying to decide if SME is the right answer to my needs.  I have a small LAN with 30 users connected to the internet through a PIX501 firewall and a DSL modem.  What I am trying to do is get reports on where my users are going on the internet.  The PIX gives me ip addresses visited in the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx but I want url addresses.  In other words, I want to know that User A visited www.msn.com and User B visited www.google.com etc.  Is this possible, easy using SME?  Is this overkill? I have had very little exposure to Linux.  Comments?

[duncan]

Take a look at censornet

[NickCritten]

So you want a web proxy that will report users activity?

You could also try dansguardian.. you can install it on SME, but if that is all you are going to be using the machine for you'd be better off in my opinion using IPCop, which has a very easy to install dansguardian add-on.

If you want to use some of the other SME features (File Server, Domain controller, MySQL, Web Server, Email server etc.etc.) then give it a go!

[raem]

Oldphool

Just about everything that happens on a sme server is recorded in various log files. See
/var/log/squid/access.log
for details of sites visted by users (with domain name style URLs) and the originating workstation IP.
You can also view these  using the server manager View Log files panel.

Dansguardian will give you additional control to limit access, but also has extensive logging.

[haymann]

I haven't installed this (yet), but you might want to look at this thread that deals with installing SARG.

Sarg - Squid Analysis Report Generator is a tool that allow you to view "where" your users are going to on the Internet.
Sarg provides many informations about Squid users activities: times, bytes, sites, etc...

I looked at one  of the sample logs and it looks like url address are listed.
Ryan

[Oldphool]

Thank You to everyone who replied.
Now I just need to get going!!