Viewing, Scheduling, and Generating Reports. Netgear STM600 - ProSecure Web And Email Threat Management Appliance, STM300 - ProSecure Web And Email Threat Management Appliance, STM150 - ProSecure Web And Email Threat Management Appliance
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ProSecure Web/Email Security Threat Management (STM) Appliance
Viewing, Scheduling, and Generating Reports
The extensive reporting functions of the STM let you perform the following tasks that help you to monitor the protection of the network and the performance of the STM:
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Generating, viewing, and downloading Web, email, application, and system reports
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Scheduling automatic Web, email, application, and system reports, and emailing these reports to specified recipients
You can view the reports onscreen, download them to your computer, and configure the STM to send them to one or more email addresses.
The STM provides preconfigured report templates. As an option, you can apply advanced filtering options to specify the number of top entries to be included, the chart type, and the output format, and you can filter the report on the following components:
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Client IP addresses
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Users
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Destinations
Because of the size and nature of the Reports screen, it is divided and presented in this manual in several figures that are explained in the following sections:
• Report Templates on this page
• Generating Reports for Downloading on page 202
• Scheduling Automatic Generation and Emailing of Reports on page 203
• Advanced Report Filtering Options on page 204
Report Templates
The STM provides preconfigured report templates in four categories:
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Web Activity
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Email Activity
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Application Activity
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System Information
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To display the report templates and view reports onscreen:
1.
Select Monitoring > Reports from the menu. The Reports screen displays. The following figure shows only the Report Templates section of the screen with the preconfigured report templates.
Figure 112.
2.
Click the red + More button for a report category to display the advanced report templates for that category. The System Information category contains only a single report template.
3.
Click View for a report to display the selected report onscreen. To set a time range and advanced filtering options for a report, see the following sections.
For detailed information about report templates, including what type of information is presented in each report and what type of advanced filtering you can apply to each report, see
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Generating Reports for Downloading
To generate a report:
1.
Select Monitoring > Reports from the menu. The Reports screen displays. By default, the Generate Report radio button is selected. The following figure shows the Reports screen without the Template Reports section, and shows some samples in the
Generated Report List.
For information about report templates, see the Report Templates section.
Figure 113.
2.
In the Filtering Options section of the screen, make your selections from the Time Range drop-down lists. Specify a start date and time and an end date and time. For advanced
Advanced Report Filtering Options
3.
In the Report Templates section of the screen, select the check boxes for the reports that you want to generate. For information, see
.
4.
In the Generate Report section of the screen, click Generate. After a short while, the report is added to the Generated Report List. This list can contain a maximum of 12 saved reports.
(To delete a previously saved report, click its Delete table button in the Action column.)
5.
Download the new report (or a previously saved report) by clicking its Download table button in the Action column.
The report is downloaded as a zipped file. By default, the zipped file contains MHTML files. However, you can change the output format from the Output Format drop-down list
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in the advanced filtering options section of the screen (see
Scheduling Automatic Generation and Emailing of Reports
To schedule a report and enable the STM to email the report:
1.
Select Monitoring > Reports from the menu. The Reports screen displays.
2.
In the Report Selection section of the screen, select the Schedule Report radio button. The screen adjusts to display the scheduling and emailing options. The following figure shows the Reports screen without the Template Reports section, and with some samples in the
Scheduled Report List.
For information about report templates, see the Report Templates section.
Figure 114.
3.
In the Filtering Options section of the screen, make your selections from the Frequency drop-down lists to specify the frequency with which the reports are generated.
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Daily. If you do not use the drop-down lists to change the time, the report is generated
daily at 3:00 a.m.
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Weekly. By default, the report is generated weekly on Sunday at 3:00 a.m. You can
use the drop-down lists to change the day of the week and the time.
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Monthly. If you do not use the drop-down lists to change the time, the report is
generated on the first of the month at 3:00 a.m. You cannot change the day of the month.
For advanced filtering options, see
Advanced Report Filtering Options
4.
In the Report Templates section of the screen, select the check boxes for the reports that you want to generate. For information, see
.
5.
Configure the Schedule Report section of the screen as explained in the following table:
Table 59. Schedule Report Settings
Setting
Report Name
Description
Enter a unique name for the report.
Reports to keep Enter the maximum number of reports that you want to be saved in the Scheduled
Report List. The maximum number of report that can be saved is 12. The default number is 5.
Send Report by
Select the Send Report by Email check box to enable the STM to send the report to the recipients that you specify in the Email Report to field.
Email Report to The email addresses of the report recipients.
Note:
Use commas to separate email addresses.
6.
Still in the Schedule Report section of the screen, click the Add table button to add the report to the Scheduled Report List. The report is automatically enabled, which is indicated by a green circle in the leftmost column, enabling the STM to automatically generate the report at the specified date and time.
The buttons in the Action column of the Scheduled Report List allow you perform the following actions:
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Edit. Opens the Edit Scheduled Report screen to let you make changes to the report.
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Disable. Disables the automatic generation of the report. The circle in the leftmost
column turns gray.
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Enable. Enables the automatic generation of the report. The circle in the leftmost
column turns green.
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Delete. Deletes the report.
Advanced Report Filtering Options
You can configure advanced filtering options for both generated and scheduled reports.
Although the Time Range drop-down lists apply only to the generated reports and the
Frequency drop-down lists apply only to the scheduled reports, the advanced filtering options
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are identical for both types of reports but need to be specified separately for each generated report and each scheduled report.
To configure advanced filtering options:
1.
Select Monitoring > Reports from the menu. The Reports screen displays.
2.
In the Report Selection section, select one of the following radio buttons:
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Generate Report.
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Schedule Report.
3.
Depending on the whether you selected to generate or schedule a report, perform one of the following actions:
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If you selected Generate Report, make your selections from the Time Range drop-down lists.
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if you selected Schedule Report, make your selections from the Frequency drop-down lists.
4.
In the Filtering Options section of the screen, click Show Advanced Options. The following figure shows only the advanced options of the Filtering Options section of the screen.
Figure 115.
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5.
Configure the advanced filtering options as explained in the following table:
Table 60. Advanced Filtering Options Settings
Setting
Top Count
Chart Type
Output Format
Description
Enter a number between 1 and 100 to specify how many entries are included in reports that provide a top count, such as the Top Users by Requests report or the Top Spam
Senders by Requests report.
The default number is 10, which means that 10 users are included in the Top Users by
Requests report and 10 senders are included in the Top Spam Senders by Requests report.
Specify the type of chart that is generated in the report by making one of the following selections from the drop-down list:
• Vertical Bars. This is the default selection.
• Line.
• Pie.
Specify the output format of the report by making one of the following selections from the drop-down list:
• HTML. The report is generated as a zipped file that contains MIME HTML (MHTML or MTH) files. This is the default setting.
• PDF. The report is generated as a zipped file that contains PDF files.
• CSV. The report is generated as a zipped file that contains comma-separated values
(CSV) files.
Client IP Address To filter the report results on a client IP address, enter the IP address and optional subnet mask in the IP Address fields below the Client IP Address table, and then click the Add table button to add the IP address to the Client IP Address table. You can add multiple IP addresses to the table.
To delete an entry from the Client IP Address table, select the entry, and then click the
Delete table button.
User To filter the report results on a user identity, make a selection from the User Type drop-down list below the User table. The screen adjusts depending on your selection; the different options are explained in the following rows in this table. After you have specified the user identity, click the Add table button to add the user to the User table.
You can add multiple users to the table. Wildcarts (*) are supported.
To delete an entry from the User table, select the entry, and then click the Delete table button.
Authenticated
Unauthenticated
Enter the name of an authenticated user, or use wildcards to specify a group of users. To specify all authenticated users, enter
*. Then click the Add table button. You can add multiple users to the User table.
You cannot further specify unauthenticated users; just click the
Add table button.
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Table 60. Advanced Filtering Options Settings (Continued)
Setting
Users
(continued)
Destination
Description
Local User Enter the name of a local user, or use wildcards to specify a group of users. To specify all local users, enter *. Then click the Add table button.
Alternately, click the Lookup table button to open a table that displays all local users, each user with an individual Add table button that lets you add the user to the User table. You can add multiple users to the User table.
LDAP User
Note:
Groups to which local users might belong are not displayed.
Select an LDAP domain from the drop-down list to the right of the
User Type drop-down list. Enter the name of an LDAP user, or use wildcards to specify a group of users. To specify all LDAP users who belong to the selected LDAP domain, enter *. Then click the
Add table button.
Alternately, click the Lookup table button to open a table that displays all users who belong to the selected LDAP domain, each user with an individual Add table button that lets you add the user to the User table. You can add multiple users to the User table.
RADIUS User Select a RADIUS domain from the drop-down list to the right of the User Type drop-down list. Enter the name of a RADIUS user, or use wildcards to specify a group of users. To specify all
RADIUS users who belong to the selected RADIUS domain, enter
*. Then click the Add table button.
Alternately, click the Lookup table button to open a table that displays all users who belong to the selected RADIUS domain, each user with an individual Add table button that lets you add the user to the User table. You can add multiple users to the User table.
To filter the report results on a Web destination such as a domain, Web category, or application, make a selection from the Limit to drop-down list below the Destination table. The screen adjusts depending on your selection; the different options are explained in the following rows in this table. After you have specified the destination, click the Add table button to add the destination to the Destination table. You can add multiple destinations to the table.
To delete an entry from the Destination table, select the entry, and then click the Delete table button.
Domain Enter the name of a domain or use wildcards to specify a group of domains. Then click the Add table button. You can add multiple domains to the Destination table.
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