Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

21.3 Connection to StaR and viewing statistics
For details on IP groups, see chapter 15.1.
Users and groups
Select users and/or user groups which will be excluded from the statistics and no quota
will be applied to them. This setting has the highest priority and overrules any other
quota settings in user or group preferences.
For details on users and groups, see chapter 16.
Web Pages
Define a URL group. Connections to web sites with these URLs will not be accounted.
Such exception can be used for example to exclude the own corporate web servers
from the statistics (connection to corporate websites is usually considered a work-related
activity) or to exclude ads connection to certain pages may download advertisements
automatically, it is not the user’s request. For this purpose, you can use the predefined
URL group Ads/banners (see chapter 15.4).
Wildcards can be used in URL groups items. This implies that it is possible to define
exceptions for particular pages or for all pages on a particular server, all web servers in
a domain, etc. For details on URL groups, refer to chapter 15.1.
URL exceptions can be applied only to unsecured web pages (the HTTP protocol).
Connections to secured pages (the HTTPS protocol) are encrypted and URL of such pages
cannot be detected.
Note: Unlike in case of exceptions described above, data transferred within connections
to such web pages will be included in the quota.
21.3 Connection to StaR and viewing statistics
To view statistics, user must authenticate at the Kerio Control’s web interface first. User (or
the group the user belongs to) needs rights for statistics viewing — see chapter 16.1. StaR
can be accessed by several methods, depending on whether connecting from the Kerio Control
host (locally) or from another host (remotely).
Note: For details on the Kerio Control’s web interface, see chapter 12.2.
Accessing the statistics from the Kerio Control host
On the Kerio Control host, the StaR may be opened as follows:
• By using the Internet Usage Statistics link available in the Kerio Control Engine Monitor
context menu (opened by the corresponding icon in the notification area — see
chapter 2.10).
• By using the Internet Usage Statistics link under Start → Programs → Kerio → Kerio
Control.
Both links open the unsecured StaR interface directly on the local host
(http://localhost:4080/star) using the default web browser.
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