Software and internet usage in a shared computing environment

Abstract

We describe the development and implementation of a monitoring system for capturing and analysing sessional data on software and Internet usage on shared computer workstations. The system was installed on 80 workstations across several locations within our faculty. Results from one location containing 49 workstations covering the first eight weeks of Semester I, 2005 are presented. Forty-one applications were monitored and these were launched a total of 11,339 times during 6,303 sessions averaging 56 minutes. Web-browsers were used during 94% of sessions and accounted for more than half of all application usage. Thirty-three of the 41 applications are specialised teaching software and all we..