{"id":1003,"date":"2005-09-16T05:01:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2005-09-16T05:01:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T05:01:47","slug":"fc3-how-to-monitor-internet-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/archives\/2005-09-16-fc3-how-to-monitor-internet-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"FC3 : How to monitor Internet usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be exact &#8211; how to monitor web browsing usage.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: use squid + <a href=\"http:\/\/sarg.sourceforge.net\/sarg.php\">sarg<\/a><br \/>\nYou can see its <a href=\"http:\/\/sarg.sourceforge.net\/squid-reports\/index.html\">sample reports here<\/a>. Quite nice indeed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted to found that it&#8217;s very easy to setup in FC3. Just follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install Squid: <b>yum install squid<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Download sarg: <b>wget http:\/\/www.mack.ro\/linux\/sarg\/sarg-2.0.9-2.fc3.mack.i386.rpm<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Install sarg: <b>rpm -ihv sarg-2.0.9-2.fc3.mack.i386.rpm<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Configure squid.<br \/>\nAt minimum, here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll need to do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Edit <b>\/etc\/squid\/squid.conf<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Find <b>http_access allow localhost<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Replace that line with these: <br \/><b><br \/>\nacl our_networks src 192.168.10.0\/24 localhost<br \/>\nhttp_access allow our_networks<br \/><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Put this line: <b>visible_hostname [your_server&#8217;s_hostname]<\/b><br \/>\n(your server&#8217;s hostname can be found out by typing <b>hostname<\/b>)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m quite sure that&#8217;s the minimum that you need to do before you can run squid, but I&#8217;m typing this from my memory, so please feel free to correct any mistake.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Set squid to be automatically run everytime the server starts: <b>chkconfig squid on<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Run squid now: <b>service squid start<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Now set the users&#8217; browser to use squid. Point its proxy server setting to squid server&#8217;s IP address, and port 3128.<\/li>\n<li>After a while, the data will start to accumulate in squid&#8217;s logs. To process them, type: <b>sarg<\/b><br \/>This takes a while, because the reports it produces are quite comprehensive.<\/li>\n<li>To view the report from the server where sarg was run, type: <b>links \/var\/www\/sarg\/ONE-SHOT\/index.html<\/b><br \/> (or substitute links with lynx if that&#8217;s what you got)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be exact &#8211; how to monitor web browsing usage. Answer: use squid + sarg You can see its sample reports here. Quite nice indeed. I&#8217;m delighted to found that it&#8217;s very easy to setup in FC3. Just follow these steps: Install Squid: yum install squid Download sarg: wget http:\/\/www.mack.ro\/linux\/sarg\/sarg-2.0.9-2.fc3.mack.i386.rpm Install sarg: rpm -ihv sarg-2.0.9-2.fc3.mack.i386.rpm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/archives\/2005-09-16-fc3-how-to-monitor-internet-usage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FC3 : How to monitor Internet usage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-teknoblogia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}