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gpetrom
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Monitor what pages users are opening

Sat May 14, 2011 11:13 am

Hi

I am new with routeros and i want to ask if it is possible to make a hotspot and be able to monitor what pages are users opening?


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fewi
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Re: Monitor what pages users are opening

Sat May 14, 2011 8:21 pm

Turn on transparent proxying on the Hotspot profiles, configure the web proxy under IP > Proxy, and turn on logging for the proxy.
It's not going to be in a nice format, though. There is no elegant soltuij for what you're trying to do outside of using a third party product made for that purpose.
 
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Re: Monitor what pages users are opening

Sun May 15, 2011 1:48 pm

If it is enough to monitor the IP addresses visited, you can set info logging to a remote syslog server. Then set up a mange rule

ip firewal mangle add chain=prerouting action=log connection-state=new protocol=tcp dst-port=80,443 log-prefix="WEBACCESS"

This way you can also monitor SMTP,IRC,P2P access etc ...

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Re: Monitor what pages users are opening

Mon May 16, 2011 5:09 pm

If it is enough to monitor the IP addresses visited, you can set info logging to a remote syslog server. Then set up a mange rule

ip firewal mangle add chain=prerouting action=log connection-state=new protocol=tcp dst-port=80,443 log-prefix="WEBACCESS"

This way you can also monitor SMTP,IRC,P2P access etc ...

GL
That's more of what Netflows (Traffic Flow in the MikroTik) is made for. It collects and analyzes what IP addresses were visited, the protocol, when it started, when it ended and how much data was transferred.