Network Monitoring

[joe]

kapil singh kushwah wrote:
> I don't want to use squid beacuse network is  already behind the
> Hardware fire wall.
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Use NTOP, most sophisticated traffic analyzer i have seen.
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Stefan Dengscherz
> <stefan.dengscherz at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
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>> your best option would be a central web proxy server (squid) with
>> authentication. Configure your network so that the proxy usage is
>> mandatory and configure authentication for users (various
>> possibilities with squid: ntlm, ldap, mysql, ...). You can generate
>> reports from the squid logs then based on users (bandwidth, sites,
>> etc.)
>>
>> Of course this only works if you just want to monitor web usage.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -sd
>>
>> 2009/2/6 kapil singh kushwah <kapil.network at gmail.com>:
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I want to monitor Network traffic on each and every systems on my
>>> network of around 60 Desktops having Ubuntu 8.04.
>>> monitoring may be centralized, I want to know  how much  they do
>>> downloads and from which sites.
>>> or sizes of data exchange and from which sites.
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards
>>> Kapil singh Kushwah
>>> Linux System Administrator
>>> Hotwax Media Inc., Indore
>>> 09907514840
>>> www.hotwaxmedia.com
>>>
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>> The box said Windows Vista or better. So I bought a Mac.
>>
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