| Internet can be a benefit to business when used | | | | ports. Setting up a mirror port does no change to |
| properly, but internet is often abused by | | | | your network topology, and it will not affect your |
| employees and poses significant liability and | | | | network speed. A broadcasted hub can also help |
| security risks. In today's internet, P2P programs | | | | you to do monitoring, however, broadcasted hubs |
| and IPTV applications can easily consume most of | | | | can only work in 10M bit mode, and it is not so |
| your bandwidth. | | | | stable. Therefore I recommend you not to use a |
| Therefore, monitoring of internet activity and | | | | broadcasted hub to do monitoring. |
| monitoring of bandwidth usage is important to | | | | Read this example for details to setup port |
| keep your business efficient. | | | | mirroring: Deploy internet monitoring using a port |
| This tutorial will guide you to how to monitor | | | | mirror switch . |
| internet activities and usage of employees on | | | | How to monitor internet connections on network? |
| company network. | | | | Once you've setup the span port, you can easily |
| How to monitor internet activities on network? | | | | monitor internet connections using an internet |
| You can not monitor other computers internet | | | | monitoring program. |
| usage in a network unless you have access to | | | | Here let's take "WFilter Enterprise" as an example: |
| their network traffic. | | | | Monitor all internet connections on network |
| There have two ways to see other computers | | | | Use WFilter's "Active Connections" feature, you |
| internet traffic: | | | | can have a clear view of all connections in your |
| 1. Configure a mirroring port(SPAN) in your switch. | | | | network. |
| 2. Do monitoring in the gateway or proxy. | | | | |
| If you have a computer as the gateway or | | | | Monitor internet connections of a computer |
| proxy server, you just need to install internet | | | | Connections of a particular computer, you can kill |
| monitoring software in the server to do | | | | established connections if you want. |
| monitoring. | | | | |
| Since many networks are using a router as the | | | | How to monitor employees internet activity? |
| gateway, using a port mirroring switch is a good | | | | In "Online computers" of WFilter, click numbers |
| choice. Port mirroring allows you to configure a | | | | under each title to view detailed records. |
| switch port to receive packets of other switch | | | | |