URL Categories Reports
The URL Categories Reports section includes reports on the categories of URL fetched from the Firewall logs. The logs contain the URL category information and the number hits on the URL categories. In the URL Categories Report: <Firewall>, the graph and the table lists the categories and the hits of Top Allowed Categories and Top Denied Categories. Click on the particular category of allowed or denied categories, to view the Category Drill Down Report. The Category Drill Down Report lists the Top URLs, Top Sources and Top Destinations of a particular category.
On the top right side of the Report screen, there will be three combo boxes. They are:
- Top 5
- Filter by
- Export as
Top 5
The Top 5 combo box lets you choose the level of detail in the reports. By default, the top five values are shown. To show more than 15 values, the
report uses only tables. There is an option to display the Graph only.
- Top 5 (graph & table)
- Top 10 (graph & table)
- Top 15 (table only)
- Top 20 (table only)
- Top 25 (table only)
- Graph only
Below each graph click the Hide Table link to hide the
table. Click the Show Table link to see the table again.
Filter by
The Filter by combo box lets you choose the field of filter in the reports. There will be three field values for filtering. They are:
- Source
- Destination
- Protocol
- Summary
Export as
The Export as combo box lets you choose the format of the reports for export. There will be two formats for exporting. They are:
Click on the PDF to export this report to PDF. Click on the CSV to export this report to CSV format (comma separated values).
The Category Drill Down Report lists the Top URLs, Top Sources and Top Destinations of a particular category.
The Top URLs accessed under <category> Category table lists the URLs accessed under the particular category. The table shows the list of URLs accessed under the particular category and the number of
hits.
Graph |
Description |
URLs |
The list URLs accessed under the particular category |
Hits |
The number of hits for each URL under the particular category |
The Top Sources for <category> Category table lists the URLs accessed under the particular category. The table shows the list of hosts from where the URLs were accessed under the particular category and the number of
hits.
Graph |
Description |
Hosts |
The list of hosts from where the URLs were accessed under the particular category |
Hits |
The number of hits for each URL under the particular category |
The Top Destinations for <category> Category table lists the URLs accessed under the particular category. The table shows the list of destination in which the URLs were accessed under the particular category and the number of
hits.
Graph |
Description |
Destinations |
The list of destination in which the URLs were accessed under the particular category |
Hits |
The number of hits for each URL under the particular category |
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