Internet monitoring software

[Douglas Chiu]

I am looking for software to monitor internet in/out and usage. Any suggestions ? Pls advice. Thx.
Doug

[Wodisch]

Hello Doug,

your request is a little bit unspecific...
That could be everything from a portscanner to Application- and Server-Management...
To give you some points to start with to build up an idea:
- http://www.openview.com
- http://www.opennms.org
- http://bb4.com
- http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg

HTH,
Wodisch

[John Bolene]

If you are referring to the modem packet transmission, some modems have an icon in the system tray. You can go into your modem properties in the control panel and turn on the icon if it is available for your modem.

Otherwise, more info needed.

[Darrell Allen]

Hi Doug,

Would a firewall program do what you want? Most let you see which programs are accessing the Internet. ZoneAlarm is a free version you can download (http://www.zonelabs.com) and is actually pretty good.

If you are looking for something to actually see the data being transmitted you will need a sniffer program. You may want to check into windump (http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump/). It seems to be highly regarded though I have no personal experience with it.

Darrell

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Have the Windows snmp MIB loaded and snmpd running, then you can use a tool like MRTG (found at http://www.mrtg.org) to graph inbound and outbound network traffic remotely on the web.

We perform that on our winNT servers in my environment.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
Brainbench MVP for Unix Admin
http://www.brainbench.com

[Douglas Chiu]

Indeed, what I am looking for is the monitoring tools that could tell me how much time each individual spends on surfing each website per week/month and the name of the websites they are visiting...etc. Pls advice. Thanks.
Doug

[roddicklevit]

Hello Friend,

Glad to meet you. Your Question is little bit idealistic. Now-a-Days, Internet Monitoring is Quite frequently used. It is widely spread all over the world.Firstly, I want to let you know what the Internet Monitoring means . In my View, Internet Monitoring means Blocking the Internet.For this, I can suggest you one,


Roddick

http://www.snapguard.co.uk/index.html

[J.Patterson]

we use some kind of internet monitoring software (http://workexaminer.com) that tracks in\out and time spent..

[Feliciastrong]

This internet monitor is free and powerful.

[SFHR]

Hi,

I f you need time specific reports for each user,how much time he's spent and which sites been visiting, I guess u need to google some netcafe sort of software.

It can be done on harware and software both. For software the purpose could be better served by Microsoft ISA Server. It can do the job for you of complete sites details for every IP, even allow you to block sites or internet access for some users while allowing others. Lot more features.

[SFHR]

It more or less depends on you how want to do it. Like Internet Montoring a tool can be used on every machine to keep track of which sites been visited by the user and send reports to one e-mail address on daily/weekly/monthly baisis. etc.

A lot can be done n lot more ways to do it. First you need to identify what do you want to do, why and how.

Its entirely your decision.

[Jags_21]

Hi,

I would say ISA server would be the Answer, now it is known as Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway

Thanks,

[PaulMcMarferson]

We use Work Examiner internet tracking software for web usage reporting and control - very easy to deploy and manage. The benefit was to track the user time spent in social networking websites..