[THIN] Re: Web activity logging
- From: "Tim Mangan" <tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:26:52 -0400
If they are using the Internet Explorer on the server you can track them by
configuring their internet explorers. When a browser gets something from a
website it identifies itself with a string - you see these in the Weblog
today (which is how you know the IP address) and it includes os and web
browser version info. With IE you can set a registry entry to add more
information. So basically, probably via group policy, you can add in a
string that includes the logged in user name.
The registry key is (usually)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\User Agent
And normally contains a string such as
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE t.0; Win32)"
Keep in mind that anything you put in the string will show up in the web log
files of any site they visit!
tim
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Pfeifer, Bruce A LCS:EX
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:27 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Web activity logging
Can any one suggest a product that can be installed onto a Citrix server,
that will log URL's and the user ID's that accessed them.
We are considering using a Web proxy but a proxy would be over-kill for what
we need. Or existing web monitoring, logs the IP address of "web browsing
policy offenders" but if it happens to be the IP of a Citrix server, we need
to trace URL's by user ID.
Thanks.
Bruce Pfeifer
Senior Technical Specialist
Planning & Design
Shared Services BC - Workplace Technology Services,
Ministry of Labour & Citizens' Services
Province of British Columbia
Phone: 250-387-6869
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