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Re: Internet usage and monitoring
From: Steve Olive <steve () bathurstcomputers com au>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:45:55 +1000
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:08:01 pm Jon Petre 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
Actually you can get Squid for Windows - http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/binaries.dyn. I still think Squid with squidGuard (http://www.squidguard.org/index.html) with Shalla's Blacklists (http://squidguard.shalla.de/shallalist.html) running on any Linux server would be the best choice. Download Ubuntu server and install on any old PC, or a very cheap new box, and make this the proxy server. You can then access this box using a web browser if you add Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/) and SARG - Squid Anaysis Report Generator (part of *nix distros) is available though the Webmin interface. The whole package would not cost more than $200 if you bought the PC, otherwise it is all free! -- Regards, Steve Bathurst Computer Solutions URL: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au e-mail: steve () bathurstcomputers com au Mobile: 0407 224 251 .... _ ... (0)> ... / / \ .. / / . ) .. V_/_ Linux Powered! Registered Linux User #355382
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