Monitoring PC's usage

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If you're wanting to monitor internet activity, you might want to try a product called WebSese (www.websense.com) It will monitor each user's internet activity and provide you with a complete, detailed report of sites visited. It also gives you the ability to filter and block certain myriad of site types.

WebSense is easy to install and pretty much administers its self.

Ahh... the age old question of NT server monitoring. There is no easy answer, and if you blindly accept the easiest solution, you might not get the right information.

First of all, decide *what* you are going to monitor, and why. Will it be thesame parameter[s] on each machine? What value will you be getting out of the data? Will it be used to upgrade, service level monitoring, application monitoring..? How much are you willing to spend? A one time shot, or an ongoing process?

The Microcoft MIB is not real detailed. You can head to to get some expanded MIBs for Wintel machines.

MRTG can be hacked to monitor all kinds of things (www.mrtg.org)

Also, don't discount the built in Perfmon. Its is a resource hog, but can give some prety detailed info - and you can pull the info remotely.

Also, check out www.netiq.com - by far and away the leader in Windows monitoring, but not free.

A tool called "Win What Where" has been around since windows 3.1. I've heard it was updated for 32bit windows. It was used as a tool for software testing, when you need to know every action a user has taken, to reproduce a glitch in the software. They then started marketing it as a surveilance tool. Hit some software search engins for "W3" or "WWW" and it's sure to pop up. The last time I saw a reference to this software an evaluation version was available for download.

There is a software not just for monitoring but a "lot more". It is called Tivoli, I think from IBM, we currently is using this one and it really is helpful.

At my work we use Adavi Silent Watch, really good program, easy GUI, and remote silent installs. go to www.adavi.com; costs a little it, but doesn't work as a TSR, it's a video mirror, with pretty good refresh on it.
it's not listed in Taskmon, no drivers are seen, completely stealth, you might just have it on your computer right now, and not have the slightest clue...

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