Internet Usage Monitoring

[neil_cardiff]

Hey All,

Advice needed on a free/shareware app that'll simply monitor and log all internet usage on a machine. I don't want anything fancy, and certainly don't want to piss about installing a 30 day trial of Surf Control (or indeed trying to endure the sales calls) - anyone got any suggestions?

Neil

[Podie]

Are you trying to see what people are using, or stop them from using it...?

[neil_cardiff]

Well, I'm going to try the first, use a mangerial style to get them to refrain before having to arse about locking stuff down (obvioulsy which then turns into them spending further time curcumventing the lockdown)...

[BliarOut]

On an individual machine, or network wide through a router/gateway?

[Podie]

neil_cardiff said:

Well, I'm going to try the first, use a mangerial style to get them to refrain before having to arse about locking stuff down (obvioulsy which then turns into them spending further time curcumventing the lockdown)...

GPO Level 500, and a lockdown script

[Plotloss]

Would ISA Server be a sledgehammer/nut interface?

[neil_cardiff]

GPo, ISA, et al is rather the Sledgehammer and Nut scenario - as the company is rather small I work on a trust basis, only stepping in when people tak ethe piss.

ISA would be great, but inevitably to big a tool for monitoring. GPO would be my first step, but then its all administration and documentation that I'd have to to do in order that I don't forget what I've created further on down the line.

Ultimatly its one or two oiks spending OT to surf the web, and just a text file log would suffice...

Podie, I know how you think, and yes, it's the perfect solution. For many thousands of users