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This is a tutorial for administrators of Opendium's Iceni online safety systems.
In this video we're looking at auditing the images that users are viewing.
Maybe you have a student who the system has automatically disabled after they were trying
to look at *** and you need to see what they were looking at
or there could be a user you need to keep a close eye on
even though they haven't tripped the filters.
Iceni has the ability to produce an at-a-glance
report showing a snapshot of the images that a user has been looking at.
With these reports you can quickly spot questionable content which might otherwise have been missed.
The images reports are also great for the unfortunate situation where you need to present
evidence that someone has been misusing the school's computers.
So, we'll start at the Iceni dashboard. We go into Reports and then Web Proxy.
Select Images from the menu on the left.
As with most of the reports, you can fill in
as much or as little information as you like to narrow down the scope of the report.
I'm just going to put in the user name of the student I want to check up on,
but you could also add in the IP address of the workstation if you know that.
Or you could even put in just the workstation IP and leave the user name blank if you think
someone was up to no good on that machine but you're not sure who.
We'll need to pick a date range to look at so I'm going to use the Quick Dates drop down
to get a report on yesterday's activity.
A report that displays all of the images would be far too big to be useful,
so the bottom two options let us tune how the Iceni decides
which images to show us.
The first is just a limit on the total number of images in the report,
and we'll turn that right up to 5000 this time.
The next option limits the number of images from the same web page.
This last option helps us to get a more rounded view of what the user's been doing rather
than swamping the report with the contents of only one or two web pages.
We'll leave this set to 25.
We can quickly look down the report to see what kind of things the user has been looking at.
There doesn't seem to be anything too concerning here, although...
We can click on any of these images for more information.
It looks like this image is from a Daily Mail article.
It also looks like the administrator has whitelisted the Daily Mail website, so this wouldn't be
blocked by the filter.
Lets click on another picture here and see what information we get.
So as you can see, we have the usual information, such as the time the request was made,
username and IP address of the machine the user was using.
As we just saw, any overrides that have been applied will also be shown here.
It tells us the address of the image itself,
and the address of the web page it came from.
By clicking the referrer link we can visit the page that the user was looking at.
So we can see that the user was searching Bing Images for the Russian Бура́н spacecraft.
Exporting this report so that you can present it as evidence for example, is easy.
Just click the "Send this report by email" icon, enter your email address,
select PDF from the format dropdown and the PDF will be emailed to you.
You can also schedule the report to be automatically rerun on a regular basis
by using the "Automate this report" icon.
Leaving the format as "Email Notification" will mean it'll email you a link to each report
that you can look at in your browser.
"PDF" will send a copy of the report in PDF format.
And that's it, I hope this video has been useful.
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