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Product Update Notice

Category: Administration

Wavecrest is excited to announce that a major release is available. When you are ready to upgrade, Technical Support will be on hand to get you up and running.

Here are some of the features!

  • Smart Engine. The new Smart Engine allows greater flexibility in the way Dashboard charts and reports are generated with metrics, such as Visits and Time Online. The Smart Engine replaces the need for the Derby, MySQL, and SQL Server dashboard databases.
  • Metric Server. The metric server settings are displayed on the Configuration Settings screen. They connect the product to the metric server to extract the data for the Dashboard charts and Time Online Analysis report.
  • Dashboard Custom Charts
    • The new Custom charts give you a customizable overview of the Web activity of your top consumers as well as any trends in Internet activity. They provide drill-down capability to generate appropriate detailed audit reports.
    • Top chart data can be grouped by users, groups, categories, classifications, sites, or user agents and displays the top 10 results in a bar chart or a pie chart. For bar charts, the data can be further subgrouped by users, groups, categories, classifications, sites, or user agents.
    • Trend chart data can be grouped by users, groups, categories, classifications, or traffic. These time series charts allow you to view the data for a selected user, a group, the top 10 categories or a single category, and one or more classifications, as well as allowed and denied traffic. You may also compare the Web traffic for a predefined date range with a previous period to detect any anomalies in Web activity.
  • Top Charts. In the predefined Top charts, a Subgrouping field allows you to further subgroup data by users, groups, categories, classifications, sites, or user agents. The drill-down report will be appropriate to the selected Top chart, metric, or subgrouping. For example, if the selected metric is Time Online, the drill-down report will be the Time Online Analysis Report.
  • Trend Charts. In the Trend Categories chart, a new category “Top 10” is available.
  • Palo Alto Traffic Charts (Cyfin)
    • Dashboard charts will be available for Palo Alto Traffic logs that show the Web activity of your top consumers as well as any trends in Internet activity measured in bytes. The available metrics are Total Bytes, Bytes Received, Bytes Sent.
    • Similar to Custom charts, Top chart data can be grouped and subgrouped by users, groups, Palo Alto categories, applications, protocols, countries, or actions, and is displayed in a bar chart or a pie chart. Trend chart data can be grouped by users, groups, Palo Alto categories, applications, protocols, countries, or actions. These time series charts allow you to view the data for a selected user, group, or individual or top categories, applications, protocols, countries, or actions. Comparison Trend charts compare the Web traffic for a predefined date range with a previous period.
  • Manager Access to Dashboard Charts. Managers can now view the Web activity of their authorized users on Dashboard charts. These include the customizable and predefined Top and Trend charts.
  • Print Style Sheet for Charts. Charts can now be printed from the browser without extraneous text printing. Printing should only include the page title and the chart. Print dialog options include Headers and footers and Background graphics which displays the product logo. Note that some browsers may print a blank second page or print the chart on more than one page. This is a browser issue.
  • Multiple Log File Configurations (Cyfin). On the Dashboard charts, if there is more than one log file type configured in Cyfin, the Data Configuration field is displayed to allow you to choose a single configuration or all configurations to show that data on the chart.
  • Time Online Analysis Report. The report shows the amount of time spent accessing Web sites by user, group, or Enterprise from the following different perspectives: classification (Acceptable, Unacceptable, and Neutral), category, user per category, and hour.
  • Sample Reports. The sample Site Analysis and User Audit Detail Reports have been replaced with reports with more data.
  • Syslog Log File Configurations (Cyfin). In Log Data Source Setup, a new folder can be added to the Directory path for syslog log file configurations if syslog is enabled. If you add a new folder name to the path and the Enable Syslog Server check box is selected, the folder will be created.
  • Login Name Caching (Cyfin)
    • For synchronous logs, the product will use the cache user name, if available, for records that that do not include the user name, versus the IP address, allowing you to get more detailed data in reporting.
    • You can set the maximum elapsed time between the authenticated traffic and unauthenticated traffic. After this length of time, the IP address will be used.
  • Active Directory Manager Grouping Type. The ability to import from Active Directory based on the Manager field has been added. This allows AD logon accounts to be imported for each manager.
  • Log File Removal. On the Data Management – Log Data Source – Delete screen, a “2 Weeks” option has been added to the Storage Limit field allowing you to delete raw log files or raw syslog log files older than 2 weeks.