Re: Internet usage and monitoring

["Manuel García" <mannyto () gmail com>]

On 9/27/07, Jon Petre <jono-31 () hotmail co uk> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I am looking for an idea/program to monitor users internet usage. Due to the
> nature of the customer who requires the monitoring carried out, this program
> must be able to run on a windows box and needs to be very reasonably priced
> (I have no control over budget unfortunately). I am aware of programs such
> as ISA server (too expensive) and squid (*nix based). Any other sugesstions
> would be great.Customers network is round a bout 20 workstations that need
> to be monitored, so pretty small in reality.
>
> Looking forward to all your help.
>
> TIA
>
> Jono
>
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Squid isn't it for network monitoring, is a Http proxy, in *NIX system
i usually use ntop [1], i don't know if it runs over windows, but is
free, and also is writed in PHP, so, you only need a web server
running on the machine you want to monitor, game over.

[1] http://www.ntop.org/
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Manuel Garcia
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