LAN Accounting
Using ISPUtil

 

 Potential Customers

 Specifications at a glance

 Suitable software to control Internet access in cyber cafés and LANs

 LAN Accounting Technology

 Features & Benefits

 

 

Nowadays most of cyber cafés, big companies, organizations, universities and different institutes try to connect through LAN to the Internet.
Installation of above without a close control on accounts will cause numerous problems, as users may apply to this shared resource without considering the right of others. More over this may cause them to be left out from their main assignments.
LAN Accounting software enables such network administrators to control their users by issuing different reports from the system.

Potential Customers:
All companies, bureaus, institutes, universities, cyber cafes and organizations that provide Internet services for their users, staff or students could use it to control, manage and limit their users or have reports about them.

Specifications at a glance:
Running under windows NT/2000
Supporting MS SQL Server, MS Access and other ADO databases
Supporting WinNT/Active Directory/ISPUtil user account database
Supporting proxy environments: ISA Server, MS Proxy, Winroute, Wingate, …
Supporting no-proxy environments with our own authentication client
Supporting no-proxy environments with a web-based authentication interface
LAN Accounting based on time and traffic usage of the users

Suitable software to control Internet access in cyber cafés and LANs
Why do you allow your employees to waste their precious time on Internet?
Don’t let an individual to use up the share of a general resource.
Are you aware of Internet connections of your employees?
Are you aware of who has used up you bandwidth?

LAN Accounting Technology
This Software, when Proxy exists, controls local area networks through locating a suitable plug-in and manages all authentication and accounting operations by the same.
In case of no proxy, it is necessary to purge part of this software on the Internet traffic path, which is called Gateway.
Gateway controls all data packets, Incase there would be a necessary disconnection for a specific user, it easily keeps the packets being transferred.
Obviously statistic data related to every user operations is managed by Gateway.
Gateway is located on the system in a way that it has no effect on data packets, meaning it won’t cause no operational problem for any Internet protocol.

Features & Benefits:
• Explicit and user-friendly setup
• Usable for LAN (either with or without proxy), dial-up (either via Access server (Radius protocol) or via multi-port (RAS or RRAS))
• Any type of service with any kind of limitation could be defined in this program.
(I.e. services with two or more charge rates, time-based, volume based, time &
Volume-based, flat, monthly, contract-based…).
• MS SQL Server, MS Access and other ADO databases support
• Strong monitoring of servers’ status by a workstation or via Internet
• Online disconnection of a user with no credit or other limitations
• The ability to define the number of concurrent sessions for each user
• Users can change their password via Web
• User information management through Web (creating a new user, deleting a user,
Modifying user information…)
• Generating reports of consumption and credit for each user via Web
• Automatically sending alert messages to the users
• Integrated management of users on different servers, in a way that multiple servers of different types (i.e. RAS, LAN or Radius) could be managed at the same time
• Calculating user’s consumption based on his/her first connection time
• Different access levels and permissions could be assigned to the operators
• Running independently of Windows or dependant on it
• Supporting user directory of Windows NT or Active Directory
• Executable as a service without the need to logon to a server
• Powerful compound statistical reports could be generated via Web
• Statistical graphs concerning the work load of users at different hours
• Report definition and reuse of predefined reports
• Support VPN connections for accounting and authentication
• Supporting proxy environments: ISA Server, MS Proxy, Winroute, Wingate, …
• Supporting no-proxy environments with our own authentication client
• Supporting no-proxy environments with a web-based authentication interface
• Ability to integrate with RealFilter to have complete reports about users usages