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36 Administrator’s Guide SurfControl Web Filter v5.5
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SurfControl Web Filter monitors all users who log on to your network. The Users tab shows various
information about users’ Internet activity. You can perform tasks, such as assigning users to groups for
more meaningful reporting. You can decide what activity you want to monitor and whether you want to
exclude any users from having their activity recorded in the database.
The Users pane is split into Summary and Detail users information.
SUMMARY USER INFORMATION
This pane shows the users monitored by the Web Filter database. The following information is displayed in
the columns:
• User - Identifies the user’s name (in the following order of precedence):
– Novell user name
– EUM user name
– NetBIOS user name
– Workstation name
– IP address
• Last Workstation - Displays the name of the last workstation the user was monitored on. If the name
is not available, the IP Address will be displayed.
• Last IP Address - Shows the last IP Address the user was monitored on.
• First Access - Shows the date and time Web Filter first logged Internet activity from this user.
• Last Access - Displays the date and time Web Filter last logged Internet activity from this user.
• Connections - Shows the total number of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) transactions a user
has received from the Internet.
• Monitor Setting - Shows the file type monitoring setting. The installed Default setting monitors Web
page traffic only.
DETAIL USER INFORMATION
When you select a user in the summary pane, details of their monitored activity are shown in the bottom
pane. The following information is displayed:
• User - Identifies the user’s name (in the following order of precedence):
– Novell user name
– EUM user name
– NetBIOS user name
– Workstation name
– IP address