Re: Internet usage and monitoring

On 9/27/07, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

NTOP will indeed break out http(s) traffic, but will only give you the
top three talkers easily - it's a pain to drill down to find bandwidth
usage for other users, as it's really a tool for measuring bandwidth
utilization in the aggregate, more than it is for potocol analysis and
user monitoring. It just looks at packets going by.


For tracking http use, not bandwidth, I've relied on firewall logs.
With a good syslog implementation you can see the top 100 users pretty
easily as well as rate the most visited sites.

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