Improving Performance of Email Reports

If the performance of aggregated reporting decreases due to a large number of unique entries over the course of a month, use reporting filters to restrict the aggregation of data in reports that cover the previous year (Last Year reports). These filters can restrict detailed, individual IP, domain, or user data in reports. Overview reports and summary information remain available for all reports.

You can enable one or more of the reporting filters using the reportingconfig > filters menu in the CLI. The changes must be committed to take effect.

• IP Connection Level Detail. Enabling this filter prevents the Security Management appliance from recording information about individual IP addresses. This filter is appropriate for systems that process a large number of incoming IP addresses due to attacks.

  This filter affects the following Last Year reports:

  • Sender Profile for Incoming Mail
  • IP Addresses for Incoming Mail
  • IP Addresses for Outgoing Senders

• User Detail. Enabling this filter prevents the Security Management appliance from recording information about individual users sending and receiving mail and the content filters that are applied to the users’ mail. This filter is appropriate for appliances that process mail for millions of internal users or if the system does not validate recipient addresses.

  This filter affects the following Last Year reports:

  • Internal Users
  • Internal User Details
  • IP Addresses for Outgoing Senders
  • Content Filters

• Mail Traffic Detail. Enabling this filter prevents the Security Management appliance from recording information about individual domains and networks that the appliances monitor. This filter is appropriate when the number of valid incoming or outgoing domains is measured in the tens of millions.

  This filter affects the following Last Year reports:

  • Domains for Incoming Mail
  • Sender Profile for Incoming Mail
  • Internal User Details
  • Domains for Outgoing Senders