To view statistics, user must authenticate at the WinRoute's web interface first. User (or the group the user belongs to) needs rights for statistics viewing. For details on authentication at the WinRoute's web interface, see chapter 2.1 Accessing the web interface and user authentication.
From any host from which access to the WinRoute's web interface is allowed, Kerio StaR can be opened by any of the methods described below:
At https://server:4081/star
or http://server:4080/star
This URL works for the StaR only. If the user has not appropriate rights to view statistics, an error is reported.
At https://server:4081/
or http://server:4080/
. This is the primary URL of the WinRoute's web interface. If the user possesses appropriate rights for stats viewing, the StaR welcome page providing overall statistics (see below) is displayed. Otherwise, the My Account page is opened (this page is available to any user).
For access from the Internet (i.e. from a host outside the local network), only the secured web interface will probably be available. The other option (connection via the non-secured web interface) would be too risky.
The page is divided into the following tabs:
Overall — overall statistics including traffic of all local users (volumes of transferred data, top users, top web pages, etc.). This section is opened as a welcome page immediately upon a successful logon.
Individual — statistics of individual users (volumes of transferred data, top web pages visited by the user, etc.).
Users' Activity — detailed information about activity of individual users (visited websites, files transferred via FTP, remote access to other hosts, etc.).
Users by Traffic — table and chart for volumes of data transferred by individual users.
Visited Sites — overview of the ten most frequently visited web domains. A chart and table of top users having visited the greatest number of web pages of the domain is provided.
Web Categories — the top ten most frequently visited web categories (in accordance with the ISS OrangeWeb Filter's categorization). A chart referring to each web category is provided, along with table of users with the highest number of requests for sites belonging to the particular category..
Detailed descriptions of individual sections are provided in the following chapters.
First of all, the StaR interface is used for gathering of statistics and creating of reviews for certain periods. To WinRoute, gathering and evaluation of information for StaR means processing of large data volumes. To reduce load on the firewall (and slowdown of Internet connection), data for StaR is updated approximately once in an hour. The top right corner of each StaR page displays information about when the last update of the data was performed.
For the reasons mentioned above, the StaR interface is not useful for real-time monitoring of user activity.
Any page of the StaR interface can be converted to a printable version. For this purpose, use the Print option in the upper toolbar.
Clicking on Print displays the current StaR page in a new window (or on a new tab) of the browser in a printable format and the browser's print dialog is opened. Size and paging are optimized for the two top-used paper formats, — A4 and Letter.
For technical reasons, pages of StaR cannot be printed by the classic method (or by pressing Ctrl+P). This method would print out the original (uncustomized for printing) page.