monitoring Emails and Network usage

[MTK1008]

Hi, I do not post often, so sorry if this is not the correct forum. I work for a fairly large company that has mostly windows 2000 pro clients with some windows xp, we also have Active directory and Netware, most clients do not belong to the domain. We also use groupwise for emails. what we are looking for is software to monitor emails, but also to monitor network usage for both the novell servers, and the window servers and window computers. I have found a lot of different software out there, but what I am looking for are some suggestions from some other admins and what you might have used that seems to work well.

 

[rn4it]

As for network monitoring if you mean network utilization check out

http://www.solarwinds.net.

What do you mean by monitor email?? Do you mean email filter software scan for questionable attachments and verbage?? If so try mimesweeper.

good luck

 

[MTK1008]

Thanks, i was not fully clear we do have tools for network utilization/performence already. I am looking more of a way to see who is accessing what folders or files and when. To see if someone who knows the administrator password is looking at files they should not be, or just a way to see the last 20 people who accessed a folder or directory.
For email you are on the right track, but also for security we want to be able to check for things like SS#'s or specific information that we do not want exchanged both outside the company and inside the company in the same post office for groupwise.

 

[eyec]

For email you are on the right track, but also for security we want to be able to check for things like SS#'s or specific information that we do not want exchanged both outside the company and inside the company in the same post office for groupwise.

check with your legal department before going down this path

 

[itaviator]

For email, take a look at the Ironmail appliance from Securecomputing.

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