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Any person in charge knows
for sure that there is no employee in the world who is ready to selflessly
carry out his or her direct duties at work forgetting about his or her own
interests, hobbies, even most harmless or useful. There have always been,
are and will always be sluggards out there. Well, probably candid cameras
will do the trick? In each office? Hardly. A good boss is certainly aware of
«software agents» that are installed on computers and collect visual
information about employees' activities. That's what you can present a
sluggard as solid proof of his guilt.
The program LanAgent is really effective
for this purpose. It is a serious argument in the eternal confrontation
between a stern boss and crafty employees. And it's not even about catching
a careless employee red-handed and withholding his bonuses, but about
anticipation, foreseeing such activities. Believe it, once caught, our
sluggard will hardly start playing solitaire or surfing the net when the
boss is not around. Prevention is the best cure. To begin with, LanAgent is
completely invisible (even for users who think of themselves as advanced),
yet still it monitors all their activities: logs all programs launched on a
certain computer, intercepts visited sites, monitors the clipboard and makes
screenshots. This data is sent to the administrator's computer and stored in
a database unavailable for other users.
Main LanAgent 1.8 window
Briefly about how LanAgent works. The
program consists of two parts: the client part (agent) and the administrator
part. The administrator part is installed on the administrator's computer,
while agents are installed on users' computers. Agents monitor all users'
activities on each computer and the administrator part collects information
over the network (polls agents) for the administrator to be able to view the
entire data on his computer and make a report. With the report wizard, you
can select the users you want to create a report for, the period to display
data for and also the types of logs to include in the report. The report
will be created in the HTML format.
The main window of the program is divided
into several tabs:
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Keyboard - here you can see
information about keystrokes. Keystrokes are logged by
the windows of the programs where they were made. The
list of windows is in the table. They are sorted by
time. At the bottom of the tab you can see the title
of the window, the path to the program, the user who
worked with it and, of course, all keystrokes. The
program can be configured so that it shows only
characters while hiding system keys.
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Screenshots - hidden agents
can regularly make screenshots of the entire screen or
of the currently active window at the interval
specified in the settings. All screenshots are saved
to the database together with the time of creation,
its window title and username. Thus, the owner of the
computer only has to select the record he is
interested in and double-click it to see what was
happening on his PC.
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Programs - this tab is used to
view information about who and when launched and
closed certain programs. Besides, you can see not only
the path to the software used, but also the title of
its window.
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Clipboard - as soon as data
appears in the clipboard, information about it is
logged in the corresponding table. Here you can see in
what window the copy operation was carried out and who
did it. If you select a record in the table, you will
see the content of the clipboard in the lower part of
the tab. You should keep in mind that you can log not
the entire content of the clipboard, but part of it.
To do it, you can specify the maximum amount of
information that should be saved.
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Files and
folders - all changes in the file system will
also be logged: creating, deleting and renaming files
and folders. You can monitor the entire file system or
you can specify the folder to be monitored.
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Computer - this tab is used to
view information about who and when switched the
computer on and off.
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Internet
connections - all established Internet
connections will be logged together with the time when
the connections were broken and it will be displayed
on this tab. You will also be able to find out what
connections were used to connect to the
Internet.
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Visited
sites - hidden agents log all sites the user
visits. You will be able to see both the link itself
and its title.
What can you do with log files besides
viewing them? You can search them. To do it, select the record to start
searching from and enter the string to be searched for. You can perform a
case-sensitive search.
It is possible to remotely control the
settings of agents. The administrator can specify what actions should be
logged or at what intervals screenshots should be made without leaving his
place. You can remotely start or stop monitoring, send a text message to a
user's computer, etc.
Controlling the
settings of hidden agents
The administrator part of the program can
automatically poll users' computers and get information agents collect at
certain predefined intervals.
To sum it up, with LanAgent, you can effectively monitor how efficiently
employees use their time at work and watch them in real time. However, it is not
a good idea to go too far because the purpose of the program is not to catch as
many «perpetrators» as possible, but to prevent such actions.
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