am looking for a SQUID tool which reads the access.log file and prepares the below reports ,
1) by user accessed sites
2) sites accessed by users
3) bytes downloaded by users.

Can you please help?

There are a few links in this post you can look at to see if they meet your requirements..
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post3429431

The best answer for you requirements is Cyberoam iView. It provides thousand + reports to give a complete picture of network activities including web usage, email usage, blocked attempts, attacks, spam and virus traffic.

Try it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyberoam-iview/

Regards
Anima

No, it's probably Sarg or another similar tool.

Anima, you've only made 5 posts on LQ, and every one of them is pushing this tool. Based on the webpage:

http://www.cyberoam-iview.com/

It seems like the Linux version is behind the Windows version, and that the 'trial' product is on the Sourceforge page. If you want the 'real' one, you can pay for it.

...

yeah, I found Cyberoam-iView really promising and that's why I am trying to share it with rest of the community members, who really want to try something different from available conventional tools.

Moreover, this product has two installers one for Windows and another for Linux and as per as I am concerned, it is free, you need not to pay anything extra for the 'Real' one.

Regards
Anima

Yeah...must have been REALLY promising, since you've not posted anything else, about any other topic, except saying how great Cyberoam iView is.

Sorry, but it seems like you're just here to advertise....

You are right, I have very few posts over this forum, but you can hope for many more.
And yes, If sharing a good product is called advertising then we need to redefine the term.

Anyways, lets have a break, meanwhile you find time to try this product and I will try to increase my visibility in other discussions.

Regards
Anima

Hi,
Sorry to jump in.
I checked up with the bone of contention.
Our senior member seems to be right, however, there is more to it then meets the eye.
When we talk of OSS software, the community promotes products that are meant to foster the Darvin's survival of the fittest doctrine.
The other day was listening to a presentation by Harald Welte in FOSS.in. His tone was, OSS's existence is there as we test various standards and products that are given by commercial organization with little or no information to the end user. We promote transparency.
Following the same trail, let's check this product out too.
Hope i have not overstepped. If I have, please accept my apologies.

Not in the least, and that's a good way to sum it up.

I'm not saying there are no commercial products that are worth looking at, and that only free/OSS products should be used on Linux. My problem was that (in this case), the ONLY posts that were made by that member, were almost carbon-copies of each other, every time advocating a commercial product. It seemed a bit....'spammy'...

If someone asked what kind of firewall I'd pick, I'd almost certainly say a Cisco PIX...a VERY commercial product. But if I worked in the same city as Cisco's headquarters, and EVERY post I made advocated a Cisco PIX....

I agree with your point.
Thank you.