RE: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
You mean to audit where people are going? We have a (vendor provided) Websense server. Contract was for 3 years (longer than I've been here). It'll be up soon. At the current rate, it's about a 12,000.00/year savings to go to squid. I have already put up a Centos5 box with Squid, and squidguard for testing (on an old IBM NetVista workstation P3). Sarge looks good for reports, I really don't need the advanced reporting features, just the actual BLOCKING part, and a little bit of auditing. We really just want the legal liability issue covered. I won't bother with the transparent part, just restrict access out to the internet in the firewall to the squid box only, which will force the client machines to use the proxy settings. I would dump those down to the machine as part of a logon script. I'd probably set a few machines (the owner, myself, and any server that DOES need to go to the internet) to be able to go around the proxy too. I also currently USE an IPcop box on my public internet access (we provide a couple of pc's plus wireless access for customers) in our waiting areas. It also has the squidguard add-in. We had a couple of instances where customers were surfing porn in our waiting area. I put that up in less than a day, on an old Compaq P3, with a 10g drive. I have a standalone D-Link access point to provide the wireless. I can look through the squid and squidguard logs to see where people have been. It goes out a completely separate DSL account. I also tried out Cyfin Reporter (Google: wavecrest) in anticipation, in order to generate internet usage reports. I copied the squid logs, both from the ipcop box and from my test box, over to my PC (XP), setup Cyfin reporter, and got BEAUTIFUL reports. I used Cyblock ISA (an older product that integrated with ISA Server 2000) at a previous employer, and can honestly say I've never seen easier to read and understand reports (especially when you need to send it to an HR person, you don't have to explain everything.) The ONLY issue I have to work out is the reporting method. It's a workgroup environment on XP, with local logon. I am forced to report based on IP address, vs logon name. I'm working on the domain logon part... If you mean Traffic to the internet, I use MRTG to query my switches and routers. I have a webpage on my intranet that puts all the graphs together. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dnk Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:48 PM To: Centos List Subject: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring I was just curious what other admins were using to monitor internet usage just a squid transparent proxy with something like sarge? Thanks! dnk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
Sorry if my last reply was off base. He said internet usage which I took as client machines surfing webpages I would have replied different if it was internet traffic. I guess I just heard it differently... Anyway, I hope it was useful for someone Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:26 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring jarmo wrote: How about webalizer? http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ thats for analyzing a webserver's logs. poster dnk wanted to monitor his internet usage, which I assume is router traffic. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
Yup. One of my clients want to add this ability to their already in place centos firewall. Dnk On Jan 22, 2008 6:11 PM, Craig Van Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you doing this for yourself or to monitor users on a network? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring dnk wrote: I was just curious what other admins were using to monitor internet usage just a squid transparent proxy with something like sarge? ntop for snapshot analysis cacti/rdtool for long term traffic graphing (this replaces the venerable mrtg) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
Thanks to all for the pointers. I will likely go with a squid based (transparent or some sort of iptables rules) proxy, as some of the users there are on roaming laptops, and I do not want them to have to reset proxy settings, etc. Much appreciated. dnk On Jan 23, 2008 10:26 AM, dnk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup. One of my clients want to add this ability to their already in place centos firewall. Dnk On Jan 22, 2008 6:11 PM, Craig Van Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you doing this for yourself or to monitor users on a network? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring dnk wrote: I was just curious what other admins were using to monitor internet usage just a squid transparent proxy with something like sarge? ntop for snapshot analysis cacti/rdtool for long term traffic graphing (this replaces the venerable mrtg) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
I was just curious what other admins were using to monitor internet usage just a squid transparent proxy with something like sarge? Thanks! dnk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
I was just curious what other admins were using to monitor internet usage just a squid transparent proxy with something like sarge? Thanks! dnk I've been using ntop with great success. Shawn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
dnk wrote: I was just curious what other admins were using to monitor internet usage just a squid transparent proxy with something like sarge? ntop for snapshot analysis cacti/rdtool for long term traffic graphing (this replaces the venerable mrtg) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
Are you doing this for yourself or to monitor users on a network? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring dnk wrote: I was just curious what other admins were using to monitor internet usage just a squid transparent proxy with something like sarge? ntop for snapshot analysis cacti/rdtool for long term traffic graphing (this replaces the venerable mrtg) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
John R Pierce kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 23. tammikuuta 2008): dnk wrote: I was just curious what other admins were using to monitor internet usage just a squid transparent proxy with something like sarge? ntop for snapshot analysis cacti/rdtool for long term traffic graphing (this replaces the venerable mrtg) How about webalizer? http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ Jarmo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
jarmo wrote: How about webalizer? http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ thats for analyzing a webserver's logs. poster dnk wanted to monitor his internet usage, which I assume is router traffic. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
On Jan 22, 2008 11:26 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jarmo wrote: How about webalizer? http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ thats for analyzing a webserver's logs. poster dnk wanted to monitor his internet usage, which I assume is router traffic. Yes, but you can also use it to analyzer squid logs. So if you're using Squid proxy, then you can charge on your internet usage. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Internet usage monitoring
Matt Shields wrote: Yes, but you can also use it to analyzer squid logs. So if you're using Squid proxy, then you can charge on your internet usage. that only tracks proxied web traffic, which isn't necessarily all internet usage. yes, if you want to analyze WEB usage specifically, there ya go. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
