FYI there's also a semi-official hack (information is on their forum: forums.untangle.com) about how to install ntop reporting as well. Hopefully that as well as more detailed reporting will be included in future releases. I participated in the recent Astaro beta and that really spoiled me. It has much better reporting (by user, by domain, etc) and the content filtering is better and more stable in my opinion but it's very expensive to buy. So I run Untangle here.
Greg On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Eric Rogers wrote: > I just wanted to follow up for those that are interested. I included > the original email below, but I will summarize. I was asked to find a > way to log where employees are going on the internet. I took the many > suggestions of NTop, PRTG, using NetFlow data and a reporting server, > etc. They worked, but not exactly the simple reporting the employer > wanted. What I stumbled across is a program called "Untangle." It > is a > unix load and very nicely done http://www.untangle.com. Very secure. > It is a transparent bridge that also does firewalling and is a content > firewall. I loaded it onto a 1U old Dell server they retired. We > turned all of the blocking rules to log, so it was totally transparent > to the users. It logs where each workstation went on the internet for > about 2 months. Now that they have collected the information, they > have > confronted the employees and at least made it public they were being > watched. Then turned it onto blocking the sites they were wasting > time. > It also now blocks the spyware that was running rampant on their > network. > > Best of all, Untangle is free, and open source. There are other "Pay > For" devices like Barracuda Web (310) is similar, but is routinely > maintained. They are also great products. Once this server outlives > its life, they will probably move up to the Barracuda for better > reporting and constant updates. > > Anyone that does want more information, I can send screenshots and/or > answer questions should they arise later. > > Thanks, > > Eric Rogers > Precision Data Solutions, LLC > (317) 831-3000 x200 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] > On > Behalf Of Eric Rogers > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:12 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] Employee Tracking Program > > I have a company that would like to track real-time and summary > information of internet activity of it's employees (by IP). They are > looking for summary information, not email content/instant messenger > chats/passwords. What would be ideal would be a passive device that > acts like a sniffer that either hits layer 7 and reads the > www.xxxxxx.com from the data portion of the packets, or just looks at > the DNS traffic, tracks IPs and reports it. Maybe even amount of > bandwidth spent at each IP... or something of that nature. > > > > Any ideas? I have recommended software that is a keylogger and > recorder, but they want something that is totally transparent, i.e. > sniffer. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Eric Rogers > > Precision Data Solutions, LLC > > (317) 831-3000 x200 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
