Is there a way to track users traffic with the Safe@Office 500W? Can a report be run from the device with this information?

Thank you for your suggestion.

Currently you can track traffic only per interface, and not per user.

Having a per-IP address report is something we are considering for future versions.

The SofaWare Team

for the most part I posted this to "500W syslog" in the Internet Security Appliances" group as well.

How does one track accepted traffic per interface? This is all I want to see. I do not care who went to a site, I just want to know what sites are accessed.

Read on as here is what I have run up against.

The only problem is when adding an allow rule, it overides any webpage filtering or blocking that would have otherwise occured via the web filtering service.

In order to use the web filtering service effectively I need to be able to at least see where my users are allowed to go. Not neccesarily which user, just that the site was reached and viewed. This way I can block specific sites the users are accessing that one would think are being blocked via the web filtering service but are not.

Example. I block Job search sites with the web filtering service but there are many Job search sites that are not blocked and becasue the sites that are not blocked are not logged I will never know that the sites are being accessed.

Setup the web filtering service to block Job Search and then try to go to this link

http://honolulu.craigslist.org/sad/

This is why I need to see all traffic. I tried adding a web rule at the very bottom of the list of web rules at allow "*" and turned on logging and yes I saw all the traffic but I soon found out that if a web rule is applied then the web filtering service is ignored and my users were allowed to go to bangbus.com if they wanted to.

Please know that I am not complaining that the web filtering service is not very good. No one can expect any category type of web filtering service to block evrything and I fully realize this. The web filtering service does block most of what I want blocked. It's just that the users are always looking for "that site" that isn't blocked. There are also many local sites that fit into blocked categories that seem to slip thru like http://www.espn1420am.com/?id=66
and I am blocking streaming media.

I also fully realize that tweaking will always be required using a service like this but I can not tweak if I do not know what to tweak.

Thanks for a great product, I am just hoping we will be able to log all traffic soon.

Any idea's on how to see where users are allowed to go and still have the web filtering service do its job as well?

I'm also interested in this feature. We have migrated from a firewall which was able to log blocked and also allowed web sites. Now our management is expecting the same type of reports we used to provide them...

If anyone knows a workaround, please let me know.

Regards,
Fabio Pinto Coelho