• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Network monitoring

  • Thread starter Thread starter Deleted member 174149
  • Start date Start date
D

Deleted member 174149

A local apartment complex is having issues with students participating in illegal activities on some websites. They are looking for a way to track these users down and warn them or disable their internet access.

Right now they have a Cisco 2821, but unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Netflow gives enough granularity for us to do this monitoring. We can see basic protocol usage information per IP address but we really want something a little more detailed than that. If there's a way to do it with the existing 2821, I'm all ears.

They will soon be implementing a login system for each user, so all traffic will go through a Windows 2003 server with dual NICs. I am thinking that there must be a good software solution to monitor what webpages, protocols and network traffic for each user that we can load on the server.

Our needs are very simple - they are not responsible for the health or status of any machine on the network, they just need to monitor the traffic with some detail and some good sorting that will make it easy on them.

There might be room in the budget but I'd sincerely welcome free/open source/cheap solutions as well since they'd be happy if we could save them some money.

Thanks!
 
Thanks, yinan. I'm hoping the client will allow for a little room in the budget but if he balks at the $1499 list price, are there any less expensive options?
 
I'm using a netflow analyzer and it breaks it down to basic protocol per IP, as well as IP traffic that can be resolved to DNS. It shows all traffic and size as well. What else are you looking for?

If you know the IP and what to sort through data you coudl set up wireshark to analyze just traffic coming or going from that IP.
 
I use a BSD virtual machine running cacti and various other tools to monitor all my equipment. Any device that can use SNMP cacti can log. I've also got it setup for a syslog server as well, which cacti handles nicely 🙂
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top