[TriLUG] OT: tracking software.

Brandon Newport bnewport at appws.com
Thu Oct 28 07:01:17 EDT 2004


upgrade everyone to xp or better linux and then take away their rights to
install other software...also put have your client put a policy in place that
any non-business related apps will result in getting fired.  The sum of these
two things should work.  As far as the web surfing...put in squid and make
people authenticate to the squid then you can run all kinds of reports showing
what they have been surfing.  Before she can monitor any of these things
legally they must make everyone sign some type of policy that states that they
can monitor everything employees do, otherwise they are could get sued for
evation of privacy.

-brandon

gregbrown at mindspring.com (gregbrown at mindspring.com) wrote:
>
> I have a small client who is looking to track how much time her users spend on-line and
> playing games.  I have a basic network set up for them now consisting of a Sprint DSL
> line, a M0n0wall firewall, and a small switch.  I will be putting a linux box on her
> network to act as a syslog server so I imagine I could get the syslog message from m0n0
> to track URL requests, etc but I'm still stuck without knowing what people are doing on
> thier local machines (playing games etc).
>
> The desktops are a mish-mash of Win9x up to XP.  Since the her requirements say she
> wants to be able to track usage on the machine for game usage I'm starting to think that
> rather than the syslog approach for the URLs it might be easier to just use some type of
> local agent on the desktops.
>
> Drumroll please....
>
> So the question is:
>
> Does anyone know of an angent that can do this AND report back to a Linux box for
> processing or reports?
>
> OR
>
> Does anyone know of an agent that can do this AND report back to a desktop running XP
> Home for processing and reporting?
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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