To view statistics, user must authenticate at the WinRoute's web interface first. User (or the group the user belongs to) needs rights for statistics viewing — see chapter 15.1 Viewing and definitions of user accounts. StaR can be accessed by several methods, depending on whether connecting from the WinRoute host (locally) or from another host (remotely).
Note
For details on the WinRoute's web interface, see chapter 11.2 User logon and logout.
On the WinRoute host, the StaR may be opened as follows:
By using the Internet Usage Statistics link available in the WinRoute Engine Monitor context menu (opened by the corresponding icon in the notification area — see chapter 2.5 WinRoute Engine Monitor).
By using the Internet Usage Statistics link under .
Both links open the unsecured StaR interface directly on the local host (by default http://localhost:4080/star) using the default web browser.
Note
Within local systems, secured traffic would be useless and the browser would bother user with needless alerts.
It is also possible to access the statistics remotely, i.e. from any host which is allowed to connect to the WinRoute host and the web interface's ports, by using the following methods:
If the host is connected to WinRoute by the Administration Console, the Internet Usage Statistics link available under Status → Statistics can be used. This link opens the secured StaR interface for statistics in the default web browser.
Note
URL for this link consists of the name of the server and of the port of the secured Web interface defined in the configuration (see chapter 11.1 Web Interface Parameters Configuration). This guarantees function of the link from the WinRoute host and from the local network. To make Internet Usage Statistics link work also for remote administration over the Internet, name of the particular server must be defined in the public DNS (with the IP address of the particular firewall) and traffic rules must allow access to the port of the secured Web interface(
4081by default).At
https://server:4081/starorhttp://server:4080/starThis URL works for the StaR only. If the user has not appropriate rights to view statistics, an error is reported.At
https://server:4081/orhttp://server:4080/. This is the primary URL of the WinRoute's web interface. If the user possesses appropriate rights for stats viewing, the StaR welcome page providing overall statistics (see below) is displayed. Otherwise, the My Account page is opened (this page is available to any user).
Warning
In case of access via the Internet (i.e. from a remote host) it is recommended to use only the secured version of the web interface. The other option would be too risky.
The page is divided into the following tabs:
Overall — overall statistics including traffic of all local users (volumes of transferred data, top users, top web pages, etc.). This section is opened as a welcome page immediately upon a successful logon.
Individual — statistics of individual users (volumes of transferred data, top web pages visited by the user, etc.).
Users' Activity — detailed information about activity of individual users (visited websites, files transferred via FTP, remote access to other hosts, etc.).
Users by Traffic — table and chart for volumes of data transferred by individual users.
Visited Sites — overview of the ten most frequently visited web domains. A chart and table of top users having visited the greatest number of web pages of the domain is provided.
Web Categories — the top ten most frequently visited web categories (in accordance with the ISS OrangeWeb Filter's categorization). A chart referring to each web category is provided, along with table of users with the highest number of requests for sites belonging to the particular category..
Detailed descriptions of individual sections are provided in the following chapters.
First of all, the StaR interface is used for gathering of statistics and creating of reviews for certain periods. To WinRoute, gathering and evaluation of information for StaR means processing of large data volumes. To reduce load on the firewall, data for StaR is updated approximately once in an hour. The top right corner of each StaR page displays information about when the last update of the data was performed.
For the reasons mentioned above, the StaR interface is not useful for real-time monitoring of user activity. For these purposes, you can use the Active Hosts section in the Administration Console (see chapter 19.1 Active hosts and connected users).
Any page of the StaR interface can be converted to a printable version. For this purpose, use the Print option in the upper toolbar.
Clicking on Print displays the current StaR page in a new window (or on a new tab) of the browser in a printable format and the browser's print dialog is opened. Size and paging are optimized for the two top-used paper formats, — A4 and Letter.
Warning
For technical reasons, pages of StaR cannot be printed by the classic method (or by pressing Ctrl+P). This method would print out the original (uncustomized for printing) page.