Internet Usage Monitoring

1 Internet Usage Monitoring

The "Internet Usage Monitoring" module records internet activities, including:

• Web Surf
• Web Post
• Outgoing Emails
• Incoming Emails
• File Upload History
• File Download History
• IM Accounts
• FTP/Telnet Sessions
• IP-MAC History
• Connection Details

This module works both in "gateway mode" and "bridge mode". Enterprise license is required.

2 Recording Policy

For every client, multiple policies can be applied. For example:

• A policy: record web surfing for a whole subnet.
• B policy: enable "email recording" for a special IP in this subnet.

For this ip, both "web surfing recording" and "email recording" will be enabled.

Detailed "recording policy" settings are described in below.

2.1 Web Recording

• Web Surf: record titles of visited web pages for http websites. For https websites, only domains will be recorded in default. To record https webpages, please check "SSL Inspector".
• Web Post: record web post content for http websites. To record https websites posts, please check "SSL Inspector".
• Web Post Size Limit: no recording of web post exceeds size limit.
• Smart Filter: With this feature enabled, WFilter will not record visits by non-human. (Not 100% accurate)
• Domains Exception: no recording of domains in the exception list. Wildcards "*?" are supported.

2.2 Email Recording

• Emails supported: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 and outgoing web-based emails.
• For emails exceed size limit, only subject/from/to will be recorded.
• To record ssl emails(SMTP/POP/IMAP over SSL), please check "SSL Inspector".

2.3 File Transfers

• File transfers supported: FTP upload, FTP download, Web download, Web upload.
• WFilter only records filenames/URLs of downloaded files. While full file content can be recorded for uploading files.
• For uploading files exceed size limit, only filenames can be recorded.
• To record files via https, you need to enable "HTTPS Inspector".

2.4 Others

Options to enable IM acounts and FTP/Telnet sessions.

• Only QQ messenger IDs can be recorded.
• When "FTP/Telnet Sessions" is enabled, sent FTP/Telnet commands can be recorded.
• IP-MAC History: daily IP-MAC address history.
• Connections: detail of TCP connections history.

3 Advanced Settings

3.1 System

• IPv6: enable recording of IPv6 activities.
• Database Commit: the database commit frequency.
• Additional Webmail Domains: Custom webmails to be recorded.
• Protocol Ports, customize protocols ports for HTTP, HTTPS, POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP.