Example 3: Investigating Top URL Categories Visited

In this scenario, the Human Resources manager wants to know what the top three URL categories her employees are visiting over the 30 days. Additionally, a network manager wants to get this information to monitor bandwidth usage, to find out what URLs are taking up the most bandwidth on her network.

The example below is to show how you can gather data for several people covering several points of interest, while only having to generate one report.

Procedure

Step 1

On the Security Management appliance, choose Web > Reporting > URL Categories.

From the URL Categories page in this example, you can see that of the top 10 URL Categories by Total Transactions graph reveals, there were 282 K of Uncategorized URLs that were accessed, as well as Instant Messaging, Hate Speech and Tattoo sites, and so forth.

At this point you can export that raw data to an Excel spreadsheet, by clicking the Export link and send this file to the Human Resources manager. But remember, your network manager wants to know the bandwidth usage by each URL.

Step 2

NEEDS NEW ILLO - SKIP Scroll down to the URL Categories Matched table, to view the Bandwidth Used column.

From the URL Categories Matched table, you can see the Bandwidth Usage for all of the URL Categories. Again, you can click the Export link and send this file to the Network manager. For finer granularity though, click on the Instant Messaging link to find out which users are taking up the bandwidth. The following page appears.

From this page, the network manager can see the top 10 users for Instant Messaging sites.

This pages reveals that in the last 30 days, user 10.128.4.64 has spent 19 hours and 57 minutes on an Instant Messaging site; and the bandwidth usage for this time was 10.1 MB.