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Title: tool for internet activity monitoring
Post by: hdmueller on August 16, 2003, 03:26:03 PM

I want to be able to see real-time which client is accessing which website. Which tool can you recommend ?

Many people in the offfice spent too much time looking up non-work related webpages. I used to run midpoint ( midecore ) as a proxy under winnt. This is a nice little proxy, and it tells you which client in the office is accessing which webpage. I used to have a second monitor beside my desk, where I can monitor this. Now I changed to e-smith ( I have 2 e-smith boxes in my office ) and can no more do this. Can somebody recommend a tool / howto ? The contribs and how-to's are not very conclusive on the taks they are doing, and I do not want to isntall them just for trial purposes in order to see what they are doing.

Please somebody recommend to me

hdmueller

Title: Re: tool for internet activity monitoring
Post by: Brendan on August 16, 2003, 03:56:32 PM

i use darg, look up contribs.org for the link, it wont really give you "live" reports, but it will tell you what each PC has loked at during the last day/month/year

Title: Re: tool for internet activity monitoring
Post by: Kelvin on August 17, 2003, 04:19:38 AM

Hi hdmueller,

A long time back I used a program called "Little Brother" which did all that and more (on a windows platform). Little brother have since been bought over. It is commercial and not free/share ware. I've looked for a similar product under Linux but have not found one yet.

iptraf is a monitoring tool in real time under Linux but the information screens are not as friendly as those given by Little Brother.

Kelvin

Title: Re: tool for internet activity monitoring
Post by: John Helms on August 21, 2003, 02:37:18 AM

This may not work for your situation depending on how you are setup, and what role E-Smith plays in your organization. Where I work we have begun to migrate the webproxy duties to a product called Censornet. (http://www.censornet.com) Its a Linux based proxy server with very good reporting tools and user controls. We are still using E-Smith as an email server and will coninue to. Maybe Censornet will give you what you need. Good Luck

Title: Re: tool for internet activity monitoring
Post by: Kelvin on August 21, 2003, 04:08:04 AM

John Helms wrote:

>This may not work for your situation depending on how you are setup

This is correct. If the SME server is not your internet router / gateway and you are in a switched environment, network monitoring software won't work.

Kelvin