Kerio Network Monitor is a small, though powerful tool for online monitoring of network traffic. It offers a whole set of choices which activities and events can be monitored.
The online display of the Internet connection load (incoming and outgoing traffic) in the time range from 1 minute and 1 year. The average transfer speeds are shown for 3 seconds (1 minute graph) up to for 3 days intervals (for 1 year graph). Both the total traffic and the traffic for particular users (workstations in the network) can be displayed at once. This way, you can quickly find out the workstation generating the biggest load on the Internet connection.
By default, the traffic for all available services (e.g. WWW, FTP, TELNET etc.) is displayed. Besides, the traffic for particular services (predefined or custom — determined by a protocol and a port number) can be displayed and their traffic can be watched separately. The traffic is shown for particular IP addresses which can be translated into the names of computers (taken from DNS or entered manually).
From acquired data you can identify, who in your network uses the Internet in the most intensive way. It is possible to create statistics with a day, week or month increments (e.g. the last 2 months with week increments for all or only some selected computers).
It is possible to watch a in special window in (almost) real time, which connections have the particular stations opened. The history of those connections is recorded in the (Connection Log).
Kerio Network Monitor is able to store detail data of certain protocols (e.g. SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, etc.). The data is displayed as a neat tree, where it can be sorted according to the stations (IP addresses) or the protocols. Optionally, it is possible to store also the content of the sent E-mail and the visited WWW pages (if they are not transferred using encrypted protocols).
The HTTP Log window records all the captured HTTP requests. The selection of a computer from the list is differentiated by color all request generated by this particular station.
Window Mail Log stores information about all E-mail messages; both sent via the SMTP protocol, as well as downloaded via the POP3 or the IMAP (if they were not transferred using encrypted connections). The sender address, the recipient address and the size of sent message are stored.
Use the ICQ Log dialog to view information on communication through ICQ and ICQ2Go protocols. ICQ numbers and nicknames of senders and recipients as well as message body are logged.
Kerio Network Monitor has separated monitoring service (Daemon) and the user interface. These two components communicate together via the TCP/IP protocol. It results in the possibility of watching and configuration not only locally but also remotely from any other computer.
Kerio Network Monitor contains embedded WWW server, which enables viewing and evaluation of the data using a standard WWW browser. It offers major part of the functions, which are included in the user interface (with exception of the program configuration).
When connecting to the service, user name and password are required. Therefore more users can be connected simultaneously to Kerio Network Monitor with different levels of the access rights (viewing, configuration, administration of the user accounts, ...).
The data created by Kerio Network Monitor is possible to be further processed: the chart can be stored as an image, the statistics for particular time frame can be stored into the CSV format (can be processed by e.g. Microsoft Excel), the logs can be processed by an external analyzer (e.g. Kerio Log Analyzer).
you want to have an overview how individual computers in your firm put load on the Internet line
you need a basis for charging particular users (computers) for the costs of the Internet connection.
you require an audit of your employees' Internet browsing
you are interested in which WWW pages they visit, which files they download, who they send E-mail to...
searching for and finding the solutions to your problems — Kerio Network Monitor offers you a lot of information about the history of the communication in your network.