[TriLUG] Web Usage Tracking...

Mike McLean mamclean at eos.ncsu.edu
Thu Sep 27 17:48:14 EDT 2001


You could set ipchains to log all outgoing packets destined for ports
80, 443, and 8008.  This would give you basic traffic analysis.  Not
perfect or elegant, but it's quick and easy.

Christopher Knowles wrote:
> 
> Once again, I turn to your expertise.
> 
> I need to be able to track the web activities of our people.  We already have
> a Linux firewall, and thinking that that is a natural choke point, I thought
> it would be handy if said software could run on it.  Do I have any choices?
> 
> What I'd like to do.
> 
> I'd like to be able to give a report to a manager of things that users in his
> department are doing.  (by IP address is, of course, acceptable.)
> 
> if possible I'd also like real time monitoring capabilities, though this is
> just a wish.
> 
> I've seen some Windows products that do this sort of thing, but if I enter
> web and track in the same search box on freshmeat and the like, I keep
> getting web log analyzers, and this is NOT what I want.
> 
> As always, thank you for pondering my silly questions.
> 
> CJK
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