Any way to monitor individual users traffic?

[Neocron]

Hi all, I work in an environment where it is really necessary for me to
track outgoing traffic on a solaris box by user. All of the searches I have
done on just end up on Network Monitoring sites but I have more than one
user logged in at any one time so I can not go by IP usage on the network.
Can anyone point me in the right direction about how to monitor this or if
it is even possible?

[Neocron]

That is pretty much what I thought but thanks for the confirmation.

<Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net>> wrote in message
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> In article <cesfqo$f1h$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>,
> "Neocron" <amiddlet@murdoch.edu.au> wrote:
>

>> Hi all, I work in an environment where it is really necessary for me to
>> track outgoing traffic on a solaris box by user. All of the searches I
>> have
>> done on just end up on Network Monitoring sites but I have more than one
>> user logged in at any one time so I can not go by IP usage on the
>> network.
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction about how to monitor this or
>> if
>> it is even possible?

>
> You'll have to use a 3rd-party middleware tool that tracks such things.
> It's tracked as an aggregate by the OS or by individual applications
> (e.g. Apache). Since I/O is not tracked accurately by individual
> processes (i.e. I/O completion might be charged to another process),
> there's really no accurate way to measure this AFAIK.
>
> I think you'll have to have your programs that users access track their
> own network I/O. Other than that, you're probably out of luck.
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