Introduction

Axence nVision® is equipped with an Agent designed to monitor user activity on Windows workstations.
It collects the following information:

•Activity/inactivity time. Inactivity (break) is the time, when the user does not press any keys and does not move the mouse.

•Application usage time. This is grouped for easier analysis of the user activity.

•Visited web pages. The Agent analyzes low level network information to get this list.

•Hardware and software inventory (see the ‘Hardware and software inventory’ chapter).

•Data on sent e-mail messages.

•Printing information.

The Agent automatically sends the information about user activity every 1 hour. The hardware inventory is scanned every 24 hours.

User activity monitoring requirements

In order to collect user activity information, you have to install the nVision Agent on the remote host (which will also enable nVision to collect the inventory). You also have to open TCP port 4434 on the computer running nVision. Please refer to Requirements and configuration topic for more information.

Please note, that all the communication between Agents and nVision requires authorization and no data may be communicated if the Agents and nVision are properly configured.

User activity information

1.Open the User info window.

2.Go to the User activity tab.

3.Select the page you would like to see:

•Summary,

•Work time,

•Applications,

•Websites,

•Printouts,

•E-mails,

•Bandwidth usage.

4.Select the time period of the presented data.

It is possible to view data concerning all users who were using this computer by expanding the Users menu in the upper part of the window.

Computers with DHCP assigned address

When a computer has a new IP address assigned by DHCP, then it will be updated in the nVision database upon a connection between the Agent and nVision. Therefore, you do not have to do that manually.