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SmartMonitor

User’s Guide

Version: 1.0

Date: 2009/01/12

Summary of Contents for SmartMonitor

Page 1: ...SmartMonitor User s Guide Version 1 0 Date 2009 01 12 ...

Page 2: ...ave indications of failure due to faulty workmanship and or materials we will at our discretion repair or replace the defective products or components without charge for either parts or labor to whatever extent we deem necessary tore store the product to proper operating condition Any replacement will consist of a new or re manufactured functionally equivalent product of equal value and will be of...

Page 3: ...7 2 5 User List Operation 18 2 6 Create Modify Admin Account 20 2 7 Adjust System Settings 22 3 Advanced Operation 23 3 1 System 23 3 1 1 Admin 23 3 1 2 Privilege 25 3 1 3 Setting 27 3 1 4 Configuration Backup Restoration 28 3 1 5 Event Log 28 3 1 6 Resources 30 3 1 7 Log Out 30 3 2 User Setting 30 3 2 1 Group Department 31 3 2 2 User List 33 3 2 3 Tree View 34 3 3 Service Analysis 35 3 3 1 FTP 36...

Page 4: ...affic 49 3 5 2 Statistics 50 3 5 3 Preview Export 50 4 Application 52 4 1 Be a Good Network Administrator 52 4 1 1 Reducing Web Page Visiting of Non Work Usage 52 4 1 2 Reducing IM Application of Non Work Usage 53 4 1 3 Best Configuration for Other Network Service 54 4 2 Leading in Self Managing for Creating High Efficiency Office Environment 54 ...

Page 5: ...t mode is passive management It means the employees always restrict their behavior in network usage after notified even warned by the network administrator Thus employees might feel uncomfortable and management problems usually will be produced in such circumstance For such situation Smart Monitor provides Top 10 ranking function and allows users to check Top 10 of network applications at any time...

Page 6: ...formation might be omitted by Smart Monitor due to the high peak of network usage 3 For Smart Monitor might be influence lots of system applicaitons it would be better to intall it in clear and pure system environment Microsoft IIS might conflict with Apache which is required for installing Smart Monitor Therefore do not install and operate Microsoft IIS or change the port number for Microsoft out...

Page 7: ...ftware CD of SmartMonitor into the CD ROM diskette 2 Click the icon of SmartMonitor_Install_2 0 0 The Setup Wizard will appear as follows Please click Next to proceed 3 In the License Agreement page choose I accept the agreement and click Next 4 Specify the destination location for SmartMonitor The default directory is shown as below You can click Browse to change the location Then click Next to p...

Page 8: ...SmartMonitor Series User s Guide 4 5 The setup wizard shows the destination location that you just specify If there is no problem simply click Install to carry outs the installation ...

Page 9: ...form you PHP is required for SmartMonitor Simply click Yes 7 Next anther pop up dialog will appear to inform you Apache is required for SmartMonitor Please click Yes 8 Then the following dialog will appear to inform you Wpcap is required for SmartMonitor Click Yes ...

Page 10: ...hen the file extracting is complete a Setup dialog for installing Apache will be popped up Click OK 11 Another Installation Wizard for Apache will appear as follows Please click Next to carry out the installation If it is not necessary for you to install Apache please go to step 20 directly ...

Page 11: ...SmartMonitor User s Guide 7 12 On the following screen choose I accept the and click Next 13 In the following screen click Next 14 Type all the required information and click Next ...

Page 12: ...Series User s Guide 8 15 Select Typical and click Next 16 Specify the destination folder You can click Change to specify another folder for installing Apache Then click Next 17 On the following screen click Install ...

Page 13: ...stalled to your system Please wait for several minutes 19 When the following screen appears simply click Finish 20 Next Setup wizard will guide you to install Wpcap Click OK to proceed If it is not necessary for you to install Wpcap please go to step 26 directly ...

Page 14: ...SmartMonitor Series User s Guide 10 21 When the following screen appears please click Next to proceed 22 On the following screen please click Next again 23 On this page just click I Agree ...

Page 15: ...setup wizard starts to install WinPcap into your host Please wait for a while 25 When the following page appears the installation has been completed Click Finish 26 Next Setup wizard will display the following screen Click Next to proceed ...

Page 16: ... SmartMonitor home page with default username password of admin admin Please click OK 29 Before you start to use SmartMonitor please click Finish first to exit the SmartMonitor setup wizard 30 After finishing the installation SmartMonitor main program will invoke automatically and the browser will pop up a login window for Smart Monitor managing interface for ...

Page 17: ... IP address has be configured correctly all PCs on LAN can use IE browser to visit Smart Monitor easily 31 If network connection is not processed correctly or the IP address is not set properly a searching screen might appear as the following figure ...

Page 18: ...lication When SmartMonitor is activated you can find the icon located on right bottom of the desktop that indicates SmartMonitor is on working now 2 2 2 2 E En nt te er r W We eb b U Us se er r I In nt te er rf fa ac ce e To specify which PC should be monitored please open Start Programs SmartMonitor Website to access into the configuration web page Confirm page will appear first Please type the w...

Page 19: ...t type the username and password The default values for user name and password are admin and admin Click Login to access into the configuration web pag Below shows the home page of SmartMonitor It can be divided into several sections ...

Page 20: ...ion for Report Display brief explanation that Report contains Current Top 10 Users under Monitored Display a table of IP address user name group department total amount for current top 10 monitored users Such table can be refreshed automatically within 10 seconds 30 seconds or 60 seconds according to the settings that you choose If you choose Manual Refresh you have to press the Refresh icon to re...

Page 21: ...r to the top one they can do self restriction and reduce non job network usage Thus network usage efficiency of the enterprise can be raised 2 2 4 4 G Gr ro ou up p D De ep pa ar rt tm me en nt t O Op pe er ra at ti io on n By grouping the users the administrator can set different monitoring contents for different users Meanwhile the administrator can dispatch the users to suitable groups quickly ...

Page 22: ...p 5 Click Save Below shows a figure of new group added 2 2 5 5 U Us se er r L Li is st t O Op pe er ra at ti io on n To utilize SmartMonitor for monitoring the first thing you have to do is create a user name Such user account can be grouped under any group department specified later and be monitored by SmartMonitor After initiating SmartMonitor the IPs in the network segment specified by the netw...

Page 23: ...ch IP address Emphasize If you check the box here a red sign will be marked between the fields of user name and IP address Such mark is used to remind the administrator that this user is important LAN to LAN Allow Local LAN PC communication to be monitored by SmartMonitor if such data is forwarded by monitor port Delete Delete this selected IP 3 Type in username separately by mapping with each IP ...

Page 24: ...er name for every IP address z You can group the users for monitoring the configuration and easily managing For the detailed of group it will be introduced in later sections 2 2 6 6 C Cr re ea at te e M Mo od di if fy y A Ad dm mi in n A Ac cc co ou un nt t It is not safe to use the default user name and password It is strongly suggested to modify user name and password after registering SmartMoni...

Page 25: ...rresponding field Next type the password again in confirm Password 4 Type the E Mail address in E Mail field Such address will be used to receivie the alert messages reports files sent from SmartMonitor 5 Language field is very important for it determines the language system display for SmartMonitor when administrators log in 6 Determine the privilege from the drop down list Previlege field allows...

Page 26: ...e steps listed below to modify current system settings for SmartMonitor The default settings will be shown on such page You can change settings for SMTP modify the recording type or adjust the disk space and session timeout etc 1 Click the Setting link from the Modify General Setting located in Quick Start area or open System Setting 2 Modify the ones you want 3 Click Save Notice It s very importa...

Page 27: ...nto SmartMonitor every time In addition it allows you to set different privilege for different administrator account The admin account can view records and delete records according to the privilege configured Admin Display the name for administration E Mail Display the e mail address for such account Language Display the language for data recorded Privilege Display the privilege for such account D...

Page 28: ...such field All the records will be sent to the address specified here for reference Language At present there are only Simply Chinese and English offered Choose any one of them for recording the monitored results Privilege Please assign the privilege for the new admin account There are three privilege provided by SmartMonitor and each account will have different monitoring effect based on the priv...

Page 29: ...tored under SmartMonitor However administrators with different privileges will have different authority to view delete the records or make DB operation There are three types of privilege Administrator Super User and Normal User provided here for you to specify for different purposes A Ad dd d a a N Ne ew w P Pr ri iv vi il le eg ge e T Ty yp pe e Click the New Privilege Type icon The following scr...

Page 30: ...escription for the selected privilege type simply retype new description here View Access Check the one s and uncheck the one s you desire for viewing records under the selected privilege type Only the records of the items checked here can be inspected next time when you access into SmartMonitor by using the admin account with such privilege Delete Access Check the one s and uncheck the one s you ...

Page 31: ... authentication box is selected Recording You can check or uncheck these six services respectively to be used and recorded by SmartMonitor Month to keep backup files in disk Specify the recording period for the services The available number is from 0 to 9 In the above example it means the recording job will be deleted automatically after six months Max FTP filesize The maximum file size for downlo...

Page 32: ...wing Only System and User Analysis menus can be operated by the user Interface Use the drop down list to choose the interface for SmartMonitor Save Save the settings 3 3 1 1 4 4 C Co on nf fi ig gu ur ra at ti io on n B Ba ac ck ku up p R Re es st to or ra at ti io on n You can save current configurations as a file Later you can upload the file to your PC 3 3 1 1 5 5 E Ev ve en nt t L Lo og g This...

Page 33: ...ion of the action executed by the user or the administrator Additionally there are several icons provided for you to search specified file s view the traffic refresh current page delete selected record delete all record mail all record to specified mail box and print current page Open Search Mode Traffic Report Refresh Delete Selected Record Delete All Record Send the report to your e mail Print t...

Page 34: ...o search Search Click this button to execute searching job and display on this page 3 3 1 1 6 6 R Re es so ou ur rc ce es s Such page displays current system resources information about listening IP kernel version processor model CPU speed BUS speed Cache size total memory memory usage and mounted file systems and etc If there is something wrong such as insufficient disk space the administrator ca...

Page 35: ...cified group Group Name Display the name of the group department for current user Description Display the explanation for the group Active Display the status for current group Y active or N inactive Emphasize IP name followed by red mark can assist the administrator to find out the ones being monitored specially and quickly within lots of records Members Display the number of the members included ...

Page 36: ... to corresponding record Recording There are ten services provided by SmartMonitor Check the one s that you want to record for such group Add New Members Click such link to add existed members into such group If you did not create any users beforehand you would get nothing after clicking the link Please add new members first Save Click this button to save the settings for such group Below shows a ...

Page 37: ... by using the drop down list Emphasize It can assist the administrator to find out such user list in a short time If you check this box a mark will be appended on IP address Username of that user for identification LAN to LAN Check this box to assist other users on the same subnet to find out this user and share information for each other easily However it is useful only for the users transferring...

Page 38: ...ecially and it is convenient for the administrator to locate that one in lots of records LAN to LAN Check this box to make SmartMonitor recording the communication of interior network when the data passing through If not check SmartMonitor will just catch the data between interior and exterior networks Below shows a figure of new user added Note After configuring user name any data or record of th...

Page 39: ...ew user The result will be displayed on Tree View immediately 3 3 3 3 S Se er rv vi ic ce e A An na al ly ys si is s This menu makes an analysis for the services such as FTP MAIL HTTP IM TELNET P2P utilized by monitored users Also it will show the top 10 services that users like to use With such analysis the administrator can easily understand what kind of service is used frequently ...

Page 40: ...lay the password set for current user account File Name Display the name of the file in FTP site Size Display the file size Latest 20 days Such table can display daily traffic report In addition you can choose any day by using the drop down list for viewing the monitoring report of other day Additionally there are several icons provided for you to search specified file s view the traffic refresh c...

Page 41: ...that you want to search Size Specify the file size of the file s that you want to search From Specify the date for the downloading or uploading files you want to search Search Click this button to execute searching job and display on this page V Vi ie ew wi in ng g R Re ec co or rd d For FTP application the system allows you to view utilization displayed with graphic From the pop up window you can...

Page 42: ...ed item s will be deleted automatically D De el le et ti in ng g A Al ll l R Re ec co or rd d To delete all of the records displayed on current page click Delete All Record All the records listed in this page will be deleted completely M Ma ai il li in ng g A Al ll l R Re ec co or rd d You may want to mail the records to somewhere Simply click Mail All Record all the records can be sent to the spe...

Page 43: ... can choose any day by using the drop down list for viewing the monitoring report of other day If you are interested in one of the mails you can click the heading of that mail to view the detailed information including sender receiver title content and attachment of that one In which the attachment can be downloaded easily Additionally there are several icons provided for you to search specified f...

Page 44: ...elete Selected Record Delete All Record Send the report to your e mail Print this Page 3 3 3 3 4 4 I IM M In this page you can check the IM records At present the supported IM software includes MSN Message Yahoo Messenger ICQ QQ and etc Duration Time Display the starting and ending time for this session UserName IP Display the name of the user who uses the IM service User Account Display the mail ...

Page 45: ... Account Type the e mail address of the user that you want to search PeerAccount Type the e mail address of the peer end that you want to search Type Choose the type of IM software From Specify the period for viewing the IM records between the user and the peer Search Click this button to execute searching job and display on this page 3 3 3 3 5 5 T TE EL LN NE ET T Some management of network equip...

Page 46: ...h Delete Selected Record Delete All Record Send the report to your e mail Print this Page 3 3 3 3 6 6 P P2 2P P Date Time Display the starting time of download UserName IP Display the user name and IP address for P2P service Upload speed Display the speed of uploading Download speed Display the speed of downloading Upload Size Display the size of the file uploading Download Size Display the size o...

Page 47: ... By clicking Open Search icon you will get the following page User Type the name of the user that you want to search Type Choose the type that the user that you want to search Upload Size Specify the file size of uploading file that you want to search From Specify the period for viewing the P2P records between the user and the peer sides Download Size Specify the file size of downloading file that...

Page 48: ...of the data Additionally there are several icons provided for you to search specified file s view the traffic refresh current page delete selected record delete all record mail all record to specified mail box and print current page Open Search Mode Traffic Report Refresh Delete Selected Record Delete All Record Send the report to your e mail Print this Page S Se ea ar rc ch hi in ng g R Re ec co ...

Page 49: ...r reviewing stock and the duration time of the stock reviewing Duration Time Display the time for the stock User NameIP Display the user name IP address of the one who reviews the stock Stock Name Display the name for the stock Stock Tool Display the tool that user used to review the stock information Additionally there are several icons provided for you to search specified file s view the traffic...

Page 50: ...p p 1 10 0 Such page display the top 10 service that users utilize most Service Top 10 is used to display the network records under different services that appear frequently for example the website which is usually visited accounts which transfers lots of mails and so on With viewing Service Top 10 it is easy to find out the using custom of the grouping network and then configure proper firewall f...

Page 51: ...can click the name link to see the detailed analysis Different services shared by the user will be listed The number shown after the service indicates that user has accessed that service at that day From the above figure we can see there are 52 mails 29 HTTP records and 4 TELNET records Click on it to access the viewing page to check the total records of the service that user utilizes within speci...

Page 52: ...affic report In addition you can choose any day by using the drop down list for viewing the monitoring report of other day 3 3 4 4 3 3 T To op p 1 10 0 This page displays top 10 users who use that service at that day This page will list the ranking of network services for users The administrator can easily find which user which network service is used frequently Moreover with clicking the user nam...

Page 53: ...rt In addition you can choose any day by using the drop down list for viewing the monitoring report of other day 3 3 5 5 R Re ep po or rt t 3 3 5 5 1 1 S Se er rv vi ic ce e T Tr ra af ff fi ic c Such page displays the percentage for the traffic of each service that users have accessed ...

Page 54: ... to have a clear view for statistics 3 3 5 5 3 3 P Pr re ev vi ie ew w E Ex xp po or rt t Such page displays all the data traffic volume on FTP MAIL HTTP IM TELNET P2P and Top 10 within one day with bar chart and table All the data can be previewed in this page and exported with PDF files for off line viewing by the administrator Besides this page also provides reports delivering to the administra...

Page 55: ...it later Or click Open to view it right away E MAIL The statistics report can be sent to the e mail address specified in System Admin automatically based on the account you use for logging into SmartMonitor If you want to get such statistics from SmartMonitor everyday simply check the box of Automatically sent everyday Next click Execute Latest 20 days Such table can display statistics of the late...

Page 56: ...e eb b P Pa ag ge e V Vi is si it ti in ng g o of f N No on n W Wo or rk k U Us sa ag ge e Employers always browse various web pages for their jobs Some of the web pages have something to do with their jobs however some of them do not Therefore the network administrator usually wishes to reduce the web page visiting that has no relationship with the work With the statistics function of Smart Monit...

Page 57: ...ake the analysis of the users customs in web site visiting for carrying out rule settings 4 4 1 1 2 2 R Re ed du uc ci in ng g I IM M A Ap pp pl li ic ca at ti io on n o of f N No on n W Wo or rk k U Us sa ag ge e By following the popularization of MSN and QQ IM software is indispensable to most of the people nowadays However the abuse of MSN and QQ has affected the operation efficiency of the ent...

Page 58: ...countered or low usage efficiency via the charts and diagrams on SmartMonitor More important is that Vigor series firewall router also offers sufficient built in service configuration for IM and P2P applications The administrator can make a good control through the firewall configuration With the joint application of Smart Monitor and Vigor router enterprise network can be utilized with highest ef...

Page 59: ...king has been listed in Top 10 When all the users in the enterprise can think network application over and over and reduce the IM application a trend of reducing IM application will be produced automatically Thus self management for every user can be reached freely and easily Below shows the steps to make anonymous logging for all users in an enterprise 1 Open System Setting and check Allow login ...

Page 60: ... anonymous user can check if the usage traffic and network service of the user has been listed on Top 10 After deploying SmartMonitor the administrator can notify all the users of anonymous logging Everyone can check the network application by himself at any time Even they can remind for each other and restrain their network behavior Thus self management mechanism can be achieved easily in the who...

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