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LAN Tutorial: How to set up STARR PRO Edition to send user-specific reports via LAN in 3 easy steps! 

1. How and when to send the reports

In STARR Commander, select the "LAN" option (1) and click (2) for more settings. On this panel to can also enter time or size limit that triggers a new report. In this example a report is send every 12 hours (3). The type of report (HTML, spreadsheet, text or raw log) is taken from the selection on the dashboard. In this example we selected "HTML report".

Email / LAN settings

  When to send
For test purposes use the options "Send when grown by  > 30 KB" (or less). Since once screenshot is around 30 KB and STARR takes the first screenshot immediately after it is started, a report is created almost instantly after you start the logging engine. 
After each log file or report transfer (or failed transfer attempt) STARR waits for 5 minutes before it attempts the next transfer. To circumvent this delay during testing, simply stop and re-start the logging engine. After each start STARR immediately attempts to transfer the log file if the specified size and/or time conditions are met. 

 

2. Where to store the reports

On the LAN settings page, enter the path to the network drive (1) and the tags (2) that you want to add to the report file name. The file name looks like "<tags>" + "_report". The tags are automatically replaced with their real value once STARR creates a report. With "Test"(3) you can test the network connection. If a folder does not exist, STARR can create it for you.

Where to store the STARR reports

Tech Tip: For test purposes you use a local path instead of a network path to store the reports. So you can test and fine tune the report generation independent of network issues or availability. Testing report generation made easy

To create user specific log files, click (4) to go to the "Advanced Setup" page.

 

3. A log file for each user

Important: On the "Advanced Setup" page, add the <USER> tag to the file name of the STARR log file, e. g. rename "slog.sys" to "<USER>-slog.sys". Now STARR creates a log file for each user that logs into the system.

User specific log files

Note: On Win 9x/ME systems it is possible that a user does not log in. In this case, and for everything that happens before a login, the <USER> tag is replaced with "Nobody" so the recorded information can be examined separately.

4. Done! 

After the STARR logging engine runs for a while, the reports appear in the designated folder:

Done - HTML reports are ready to read

In this example we used the interactive HTML report. Just click on the report to read it. Or use the Windows search function to search for reports that contain specific keywords:

Search reports and screenshots for keywords

Note: With screenshots enabled, the reports are automatically "zipped" to save hard disk space.
Since this saves typically more than 90% hard disk space. we recommend to keep the reports zipped while searching them for keywords.

Windows ME and Windows XP have already built-in support for ZIP-files (called "Compressed folders"). An all other Windows version, you can use a utilities like ZipMagic to search ZIP-compressed reports. These and similar programs allow you to handle ZIP files very conveniently. 

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