Users Page

The Users report page provides several links that allow you to view web reporting information for individual users.

To view the Users report page, select Web from the Product drop-down and choose Monitoring > Users from the Reports drop-down. For more information, see Using the Interactive Report Pages.

From the Users page you can view how long a user, or users, on your system have spent on the internet, on a particular site or URL, and how much bandwidth that user is using.

Note
The maximum number of users on the Web Security appliance that the Security Management appliance can support is 500.

From the Users page, you can view the following information pertaining to the users on your system:

Details on the Users Page

Section

Description

Time Range (drop-down list)

Choose the time range for your report. For more information, see the Choosing a Time Range for Reports.

Top Users: Transactions Blocked

You can view the top users, by either IP address or user name, and the number of transactions that have been blocked specific to that user, in graphical format. The user name or IP address can be made unrecognizable for reporting purposes. For more information on how to make user names unrecognizable in for this page or in scheduled reports, see the Enabling Centralized Web Reporting on the Security Management Appliance. The default setting is that all user names appear. To hide user names, see Anonymizing User Names in Web Reports.

To customize the view of the chart, click on the chart. For more information, see (Web Reports Only) Choosing Which Data to Chart.

Top Users: Bandwidth Used

You can view the top users, by either IP address or user name, that are using the most bandwidth on the system, in graphical format.

To customize the view of the chart, click on the chart. For more information, see (Web Reports Only) Choosing Which Data to Chart.

Users

You can use this interactive table to search for a specific User ID or Client IP address. In the text field at the bottom of the User table, enter the specific User ID or Client IP address and click on Find User ID / Client IP Address. The IP address does not need to be an exact match to return results.

You can click on a specific user to find more specific information. For more information, see the User Details Page (Web Reporting)

Note

To view user IDs instead of client IP addresses, you must set up your Security Management appliance to obtain user information from an LDAP server.

Tip
To customize your view of this report, see Working with Web Security Reports.