Jeremy,
I wonder if what Fritz is asking is whether Analog can use information
to analyse logs for certain (types of) sites being accessed from within
his organisation. I use analog to analyse outbound proxy server access
to determine general trends in access, (as well as identifying people
hogging bandwidth with streaming services, or film trailer or game
downloads when they should be working). I'm assuming that Fritz is
asking whether Analog can combine websites into, and report on,
categories such as "sports", "travel", "news", gambling", "music".
I know our outbound proxy server uses filtering software that has
specific categories blocked by default (porn, crime, gambling etc) but
this info doesn't appear in any logfiles or lookup files, and I suspect
the vendors of the software aren't going to make that list public. Would
there be a way to use ALIAS to create your own category information?
I use the Directory Report to list the top websites accessed but go no
further than the host/domain part of the URL. For example ...
19507290: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
12163119: http://www.google.com/
6125362: http://www.google.co.uk/
5106671: http://www.skynews.com/
For example we might want to create subheadings and group the above into
"Search Engines" (the two Google entries) and "News" (BBC and Sky).
Wallace.
Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
Analog has ALIAS commands that allow you to have it treat any pattern
of data as a different pattern. This is probably the easiest way to
make categories. There are two types of aliases -- those that work at
the data level and affect all reports, effectively grouping multiple
items together. Aliases that work at the report level only affect the
display of individual lines in the report.
...
Fritz Schantz wrote:
Hi all
I don't even qualify as a newbie, as I have not installed Analog yet.
I am looking for an alternative to webtrends firewall suite 4.1c,
which will no longer be compatible with our Symantec Enterprise
firewall when we upgrade it to version 8. Everthing I've read so far
makes Analog seem like a no-brainer. I have not yet seen in my
readings whether catagorizing can be done for outbound activity. That
is my concern - is catagorization possible in Analog?
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