README.TXT Deep Software Activity Monitor version 3.01 This is an application for real time monitoring of users activities on network computers and for employees work time tracking. Administrators can view typing keystrokes in real time, take snapshots of the remote screen at will, view all running programs and monitor when user switches between them, copy any files from remote PC, view visited web site, terminate processes, control computers remotely. User's activities can be stored in log file on the remote workstation, which can be downloaded later manually or by schedule. Log files can be combined and exported to many useful formats to get reports on how much time users spend with particular applications, which programs they run with screenshots and keystrokes, what websites they visit, etc. PROGRAM FEATURES: - Real time keystrokes monitoring - Viewing the desktop from the remote workstations in real time - Monitor Internet surfing on the remote computers in real time - Install Agent (software client part) remotely in silent mode - View running applications list and terminate any of them - Record activity log on the remote PC - Autodetect computers with installed agents on a LAN and manage computers list - Analyze logs with MS Excel to get report, e.g. how much user played games or was surfing the Web at worktime and much more - Configurable logs export to HTML with embedded screenshots - Configurable logs export to delimited text files - Download any files, including logs and screenshots from remote PC - Schedule automatic periodical log file downloads and export - Shut down or reboot computers remotely, Log Off user - Send instant messages to monitored computers - Monitor all users on LAN users simultaneously from one PC - Agent running on remote PC is difficult to find since it does not show up in the task list (on Win9X) - Run commands/programs on remote computers, open web sites/documents for the remote users to view - Shut down or uninstall Agent software remotely - Easy to install and use - Agent runs on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. Activity Monitor part runs on 98/Me/NT/2000/XP INSTALLATION NOTES: First extract files from zip-archive amonitor.zip: amagent30.exe - Activity Monitor Agent. Install it on the remote computers. Runs on Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP Can be installed remotely from Activity Monitor if both computers are Windows NT/2000/XP. Click File->Install Agent in AM. To install in silent mode run with the following command line parameters: /VERYSILENT - do not show user interface. Just install with all default options /OldPsw=xxx - old Agent password. Required for reinstalling Agent /NewPsw=xxx - set this Agent password. Required for monitoring this Agent, uninstalling or reinstalling /DIR="x:\dirname" - directory to install Agent. By default it is installed to Program Files\AMSys /NORESTART - instructs setup not to reboot computer even if it's necessary amonitor30f.exe (evaluation version) or amonitor30_lX.exe (for full version) - Activity Monitor Install it on your computer to monitor users. Runs on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP Warning! If you have previous versions of Activity Monitor you have to reinstall both Monitor and Agent portions. Requires TCP IP protocol to be installed on user's and your PC. Used TCP IP port numbers: 15163, 15164, 15165, 15166. They should be free and not blocked by firewall. For evaluation purposes you may want to install Agent on the same computer as the Activity Monitor itself. You may install Agent on the remote computer as well. WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.01 - Now Activity Monitor works on NT 4.0 - Fixed bug when exprot to Excel sometimes did not work WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.0 - This is the major update that includes lots of new useful features - Install Agent remotely from Activity Monitor on all computers in network (Windows NT/2000/XP only. Administrator rights required) - Install Agent in silent mode, e.g. from log on script - Schedule log file periodical download from all remote computers and automatic export to get periodical computer usage reports for time saving - Control remote computers: - Run program or command - Open web page for remote user to view - Open document for remote user to view - Turn Off or Restart remote computer - Log Off remote users - Turn On screensaver - Terminate processes/close programs remotely - Includes all new dpexec.exe utility that allows to start processes on remote computer without having Agent installed there. It can copy programs to remote computer for execution and show results back just like telnet. It works on Widows NT/2000/XP. Start dpexec /? to get help on usage. - Send instant message to remote computers - Advanced computers list management: - choose between 3 different list views - sort list by any column - customize columns visibility and width - monitoring windows activate as you click on computers in list - automatically set columns width for better view - easily tile or cascade monitoring windows to see them all - Monitoring Session Recording. You may record swl-log file locally on Activity Monitor computer instead of remote Agent computers. It contains all data from monitoring window. - If your computer is connected to several networks (has several NICs) you can choose which network you want Activity Monitor to bind to - Restore opened monitoring windows at startup is a great time saving feature that will completely restore Activity Monitor view when you restart it - Set default directories for log files and exported files - Log file export. New csv-file export appeared instead of txt-file export. CSV files can be easily imported into database or spreadsheet programs - Automatically export log file after downloading it - Better and faster screenshot resize (on Windows NT/2000/XP) and scrolling - Remotely configurable Agent startup warning message. You can tell employees that their actions are recorded - More reliable remote files downloading. Now it does not stop or freezes. - More reliable detection of remote computers presence. Now they don't go offline in list without objective reason - Close all monitoring windows at once - Password is now required (if you set it) to uninstall or reinstall Agent and Activity Monitor. - Improved installation programs for both Agent and Activity Monitor - New modern look of icons and toolbar images - New HTML based help - Supports Internet browsing history in AOL - Duration column on Foreground tab in monitoring window - Lots of minor improvements and bugfixes WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.6 - New option: Do not make offline screenshots when computer is idle - It is possible now to use system variables in path to offline log file and offline screenshots. By default %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32 durecoty is used. - Few minor bugs have been fixed WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.52 - Offline screenshots feature was fixed WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.5 - Internet surfning monitoring in real time and offline - Now works correctly in DHCP environment, when IP addresses can change frequently - Agent can run in "Aware" mode, informing user that he is being monitored - Autoreconnect to the remote PC after connection has been dropped - Clipboard operation on all tabs in monitoring window - Save the content of any monitoring window tab to the local file - Few minor bugs are fixed and some minor imporvements are implemented WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.2 - Fixed bug when computers with autorefresh turned on were disconnecting sometimes. WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.1 - Security improved. Passwords may be used for monitoring computers and to start Activity Monitor. Everyone who wants to monitor some computer has to know it's access password. - Few bugs fixed. WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.0 - Offline logging. Logging engine runs on the remote computers all the time, even if you are not connected to it. It logs all keystrokes and programs activations with time stamps. Also it takes screenshots in specified period of time and saves them to the local or shared location. When you connect to this remote computer with Activity Monitor, you may download those logs and screenshots to the local workstation. - Log export. It is available to export downloaded log files to MS Excel for detailed analisys, to HTML files with embedded screenshots, to delimited text file for further import to any database. All exports are based on tamplates, so you can easily customize the look of resulting files. - Download files. Download any files from the remote workstation. - Foreground application tab added. When user on the remote workstation activates one or another application, it is added to the list with time stamp. So you may see user's activity history. - Active application name is added to the Keystrokes tab, so you can see where user types a text now. - Program has received new name Activity Monitor 2001 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.6 - StealthWatcher 2000 is now works with most European languages. The bug, when user could not type accented charecters on computer with StealthWatcher Agent installed, has been fixed. - In previous version StealthWatcher could not detect or connect to some computers on LAN, when TCP IP routing has been used. Now this bug is fixed. StealthWatcher 2000 should work in most networks. WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.5 - Auto refreshing screenshot and applications list in specified period of time. - Scaling of the screenshot from 1/1 to 1/8 scale with good quality. Decreasing screenshot dimensions reduces loading of the remote and local computer and reduces network traffic. - Help system designed. - Applications list feature now works on Win NT/2000 client computers. - Hotkeys added to the frequent commands. - Some toolbar icons changed. PURCHASE FULL VERSION on http://www.softactivity.com/buy.asp For more information about Activity Monitor read Help and visit http://www.softactivity.com Send us an e-mail: Technical support - support@softactivity.com Sales related information - sales@softactivity.com Product information - info@softactivity.com