Re: [squid-users] question on capabilities of squid

a very good log analyzer is awstat.
it can generate very details statistic & customizable.

On Thursday 03 July 2003 04:31 pm, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Thursday 03 July 2003 05.19, glen hyland wrote:
> > My company has a client that is insterested in a proxy
> > server, and has us a few questions. But I am a bit
> > confused on a definitive answer.
> >
> > The questions are:
> > Does it track the hours that users are on the
> > internet?
> > Does it track the sites that users go to?
> > Does it create a log at the end of that month so that
> > they can see all of this information?
>
> Yes on all above, indirectly via the log file and statistics programs
> which collects and summarises this information from the access log.
>
> > Does it block Instant messenger applications?
>
> Yes, if you set up access controls denying these applications and the
> applications use HTTP.
>
> Applications not using HTTP is not seen by Squid and can not be
> blocked by Squid.
>
> > But as far as logging hours? I dont see it in the
> > access.log when I look at mine. I can see what user
> > tried to get to what site. But is there a way to track
> > hours??
>
> Each request has a timestamp when the request was made and the
> duration of the request. By analysing the distribution of the
> requests you can approximate the hours spent on the Internet with a
> quite good accuracy. Several log analysis programs can do this for
> you.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Thu Jul 03 2003 - 02:34:52 MDT