Capturing internet activity

[SLE]

Hi there,

I need to write an application which should monitor user activity
client-side and transmit captured information to a central server. User
activity means application usage and "internet activity" (browsing, FTP, or
whatever).

For the application usage part I decided to implement WMI Win32_Process
events which will do fine; however I need a solid approach for the internet
activity part - some advice would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

 

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

you could always download winpcap and simply sniff the packets.
That can be done by installing software but not reconfiguring anything.
On the other hand, if you just want to capture HTTP traffic, you can make
your own local proxy objects. That's pretty painful.

There are products to do all of this. It might make more sense to combine a
product or two on each desktop and then focus on the code to centralize the
data on the servers.

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