Use Reports to Evaluate Internet Activity

Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.8.x

Related topics:

Presentation reports

Investigative reports

Accessing self-reporting

Application reporting

Real-Time Monitor

The Web Security manager provides several reporting tools that can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your Internet access policies. (Log Server, a Windows-only component, must be installed to enable all reporting features except Real-Time Monitor.)


	Note In organizations that use delegated administration, reporting features may not be available to all administrators. See Delegated Administration and Reporting.

Web Security Dashboard charts provide threat, risk, usage, and system information to help you review Internet activity in your network at a glance. For most charts, the time period, chart style, and set of results shown can be customized. See The Web Security Dashboard.

Presentation reports offer a list of predefined reports, custom reports, and report templates. Reports are available in bar chart, trend chart, and tabular formats.

Copy any predefined report to apply your own filters to create a custom report, or use a report template to create your report from scratch. See Presentation reports for complete details.

Investigative reports let you browse through log data interactively. The main page shows a summary-level bar chart of activity by risk class. Click the different elements on the page to update the chart or get a different view of the data.

See Investigative reports for details on the many ways you can view Internet use data.

Application reports provide information about the browsers and platforms from which Internet requests are originating, with a search item that lets you investigate activity associated with a specific user agent string.

See Application reporting for more information.

Real-Time Monitor shows current Internet activity in your network, including the URLs being requested and the action applied to each request. In Websense Web Security Gateway and Web Security Gateway Anywhere deployments, the monitor also shows which sites were scanned by Content Gateway. If a site is dynamically recategorized based on scanning results, both the original category and current category are shown.

See Real-Time Monitor for more information.


	Important Do not use Internet Explorer Compatibility View with the TRITON console. If you experience odd reporting behavior or page layouts in Internet Explorer, make sure that Compatibility View button (between the URL and the Refresh button in the browser address bar) is not selected.