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Traffic Monitoring of workstation PC - ISA 2000 - 13.Feb.2008 2:24:57 AM

Budmaas

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Hi all,

I'm using ISA server 2000 with 1 MB bandwidth subscription & giving Internet access to 40 users out of 65 on my network.
I wanted to use any software or how can monitor the browsing traffic or how much a perticular user has used ?

Do i need to use any seperatre software ?

or ISA gives facility inside it ?

Any torch bearer here ?

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RE: Traffic Monitoring of workstation PC - ISA 2000 - 15.Feb.2008 1:42:09 AM

AHIT

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You can use the bult in ISA reports to produce a daily/weekly/monthly report on the top X users.
There was a free "GFI webmonitor" tool available for a while which gave a nice browser based 'insight' into who was doing what.. as a lead in to their full product suite - although I believe (from a quick search) this is no longer available.
Realistically the 3rd party tools tend to do a better job of reporting on "what happened" whereas ISA carries on DOING the job of what should happen.

Try one of the multitude of 3rd party apps - most have short (10 to 30 day) trial periods with full or most funcitonality before they become crippled.

HTH

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RE: Traffic Monitoring of workstation PC - ISA 2000 - 18.Feb.2008 6:50:04 AM

Budmaas

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quote:

ORIGINAL: AHIT

You can use the bult in ISA reports to produce a daily/weekly/monthly report on the top X users.
There was a free "GFI webmonitor" tool available for a while which gave a nice browser based 'insight' into who was doing what.. as a lead in to their full product suite - although I believe (from a quick search) this is no longer available.
Realistically the 3rd party tools tend to do a better job of reporting on "what happened" whereas ISA carries on DOING the job of what should happen.

Try one of the multitude of 3rd party apps - most have short (10 to 30 day) trial periods with full or most funcitonality before they become crippled.

HTH

yes correct
But if you remember ISA 2000 on win 2000 server do not work. I treid & it falied to install.
Anyway i'm just testing everything & still loooking another software to test the for best reporting user by user.
I think ISA 2000 has not much security & better reporting functions.

Still in search of ................

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RE: Traffic Monitoring of workstation PC - ISA 2000 - 20.Feb.2008 11:48:00 PM

AHIT

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?? ABSOLUTELY ISA2000 will run on Win2000.... and Win2003.
ISA2004 will run on Win2000, Win2003.....

"I think ISA 2000 has not much security & better reporting functions". Not much security? methinks you haven't spent much time learning ISA! Reporting functions? There I'd agree theres not a helluva lot, but enough for most admins who have more to do than review reports all day!

< Message edited by AHIT -- 20.Feb.2008 11:51:21 PM >

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RE: Traffic Monitoring of workstation PC - ISA 2000 - 15.Mar.2008 5:30:55 AM

Budmaas

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quote:

ORIGINAL: AHIT

?? ABSOLUTELY ISA2000 will run on Win2000.... and Win2003.
ISA2004 will run on Win2000, Win2003.....

"I think ISA 2000 has not much security & better reporting functions". Not much security? methinks you haven't spent much time learning ISA! Reporting functions? There I'd agree theres not a helluva lot, but enough for most admins who have more to do than review reports all day!

yes
You are Kurrect

I 'm setting up all options & trying to use all those facilty ISA 2000 provides what i found here.
It is based on top 5 users in summary.
Top web sites visited
Top destinations..... some others mostly useless.

Mostly what an Admin wants ... to monitor a single user activity sometimes......!!!

Any idea ..... ?
There is no such option to monitor a single user activity specilally.

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RE: Traffic Monitoring of workstation PC - ISA 2000 - 17.Mar.2008 1:54:35 AM

AHIT

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Theres no standard report to monitor a single users activity.
I'll usually check the "top X" reports of sites/users etc but if I have a need to monitor down to all activity for a single user then I'll use the WEBD logs.

eg: Say I wanted to know everywhere user BobSmith had been for the month of February 2008
I'd go the the ISA box into the logs directory and do
find "BobSmith" WEBD200802*.log > bobsmith.txt
to produce a text file called bobsmith of everywhere that useID had been.
you can then open in excel and comma seperate the fields and you'll see a full list of everywhere that authenticated User had been.

Hope this helps.

As admins whilst we certainly can "check on everything a user does and everywhere they go", I've got no time for that! Thousands of lines of logs to read for the hell of it?!?! I've got REAL work to do

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RE: Traffic Monitoring of workstation PC - ISA 2000 - 18.Mar.2008 10:45:28 AM

Budmaas

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Thank you
I have did whwever you said but i think mornitoring in deep with ISA 2000 for an user 's activity is not prvided.

I can get access & excel sheet. But it is not enough & no other option i'm getting in it.

Thank you & CLOSING THE THREAD.

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