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Software to track internet usage

by Apr 7, 2015 9:58PM PDT

I have been looking online for software that will track a user's internet activity. That is all we need it to do. A lot of the software not only tracks internet activity, but all activity on the user's PC.

We just want to be able to see the websites visited and the amount of time spent on the internet. We found InterGard's web filtering, but the issue with that was, it still counts usage if the window isn't active or is minimized. The software would stop calculating after 30 minutes of inactivity on the website, but for a 4 day work week that could add up to a lot of time, making it look like the user was on the internet more than they actually were.

Does anyone have any suggestions that I could look at? We are looking at installing this on 20 - 25 computers.

Thank you for any information you can provide.

Scott Christopher
IT Manager
Struthers-Dunn LLC


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Sounds like Spector to me.
by Forum moderator Apr 8, 2015 1:43AM PDT

I'll just share the link but it does measure the time the browser is in the foreground and more.

Reports look to do what you asked.

http://www.spectorcne.com/

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So Close
by schristopher815 Apr 8, 2015 3:47AM PDT

the Spectorsoft software was very close. The only issue is that we would have to host it. That would mean having to get another server, and storage.

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Spector writes...
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 8, 2015 3:59AM PDT

"Spector CNE Investigator is made up of 4 components—a recorder placed on the Windows computer being investigated and 3 server-side components that can be deployed across one or more Windows-based machines on your network."

While it may be best to have this on some 24x7 server, I don't see where it demands anything but another Windows machine for the logging.

You don't want to log it on the client since the user can delete such logs. Remember that this is a PC after all.
Bob

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Demo Scheduled
by schristopher815 Apr 8, 2015 6:04AM PDT

Thank you for your input. I have set up a demo for tomorrow.

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Regarding Software to track internet usage
by Apr 8, 2015 1:15AM PDT

There we're several security or firewall solution that can track the user's internet activity. Normally it comes with a hardware or a dashboard monitoring software done in a single platform solution which automates network device information collection, including identification and tracking of business-critical trends and key performance indicators. What I am thinking is a dashboard monitoring software, and by using some Meraki products
Example MX64. You can check this link/s for your reference.
(https://meraki.cisco.com/technologies/next-gen-firewall)
(https://meraki.cisco.com/products/appliances/mx64
Let me know if you need further assistance.

Regards!

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