Internet monitoring

[trentosis]

ok heres the situation, we have several training rooms available for hire and we want to monitor traffic going to each room, each room is re-imaged every time a new class is in there so the computers rarely have the same IP, also computers are swapped around to different rooms. each room has a standard 16 port 10/100 switch which is linked to the patch panel and then linked to the main switch. All internet traffic is directed through a proxy server and then through the gateway onto the internet cloud. does anyone have any ideas of methods which could be used within a budget of around 2500
cheers.

 

[sagax]

The hardware/software is not the issue. You can grab an old PC from the back room load up Linux and MRTG or Ethereal and you are good to monitor.

The problem is identifying the origin of the traffic. If you can uniquely identify each switch for each of the rooms then the monitoring software can log the traffic through them.