The Activity Logging Add-in is a Surrogate Socket add-in which logs the following information to a Microsoft Access database:

• Date/Time Connected
• Date/Time Disconnected
• Client IP Address
• Client Port Number
• Host IP Address
• Host Port Number
• Bytes Sent
• Bytes Received

Most of this information is already available to you in the surrogatesocket.log file. In database form, however, it is much simpler to generate reports of client and host activity. Included in the sample database are two sample reports which should serve as a model to develop custom solutions from.

View a snippet of the summary report in a separate window.

Before installing the Activity Logging Add-in, you must be running Surrogate Socket version 1.2.8. If you have difficulty updating to version 1.2.8, please see Advisory A0021.

To install the Activity Logging Add-in, follow the instructions shown below:

• Download the Activity Logging Add-in installation file and save it on your proxy server.
• Run the file you just downloaded at the proxy server.
• When the screen below is displayed, make sure the directory specified is the directory Surrogate Socket is installed in. NOTE: the installation file does not detect the directory Surrogate Socket is installed in.

• After completing the installation, run the Surrogate Service Control program.
• Click on the Settings tab.
• Click on the Advanced button to the right of Logging Level
• You should see a screen similar to the following:

• From here, select the location of the database you want to log to and the number of days of log history to retain. The installation program installs a copy of SSActivityLog_Sample.mdb in the installation directory. You should make a copy of this file with a different name to insure you have an empty database in case the original gets damaged.

After selecting the database, you must stop and then restart Surrogate Socket to start logging to the database.