Have a customer with a Mikrotik router who wants nice graphs of internet usage by user. Can anyone recommend a nice windows based proxy software (they are a windows shop) that will allow outgoing traffic to the Mikrotik be re-routed to a standalone proxy for getting stats, etc. and then being sent out the Mikrotik to the Internet.
Open source or commercial is fine, as long as an office admin can make sense of it and use it.
Even better if it integrates with Windows AD to get users names.
Any kind of radius software would give you the ability to graph user usage of internet.
In that case you would need to configure pppoe or hotspot for users to login.
There are a lot of radius softwares around, mostly based on linux, but there are for
windows too.
Or you can use netflow, but I can’t remember the software on windows that collected
info from netflow.
I have worked with PRTG and its too much for my customers.
They use Active Directory for authentication. The Mikrotik is just a basic router and NAT firewall. My best bet is to find a Proxy server that has Active Directory intergration. Ran across this yesterday and it looks promising. http://www.wavecrest.net/products/cyfin/sa/index.html?dt=1
Will let all know if this works as I’m going to get the trial.
I have not used windows server that much, but if i recall it right, there is a radius manager
integrated in windows server. This radius has the capability to connect to Active Directory,
and mikrotik on it’s side can connect to the radius as well.
You may want to look at that too.