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Archive for the ‘How To’ Category

Web Module – Dynamic Reports

Thursday, May 30th, 2013

This blog article will look at the Dynamic Reports feature in the Vantage Ultimate Web Module, and how they work.
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Categorising Keywords Typed Into Search Engines

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

This blog article will look at how to use WebSpy’s Profiles to categorize the search terms that users have typed into Search Engines, and add this information to reports.
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Vantage Guidelines For Enterprise – Storages

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Vantage Giga can be a very effective tool for generating useful management reports on Internet, email, and network activity in large organizations. Because large organizations generally have a large volume of log data to report on, here are a few guidelines to help make the reporting process as efficient as possible. (more…)


Vantage Guidelines For Enterprise – Reports

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Vantage Ultimate can be a very effective tool for generating useful management reports on Internet, email, and network activity in large organizations. Because large organizations generally have a large volume of log data to report on, here are a few guidelines to help make the reporting process as efficient as possible. (more…)


How To: Add A Custom Field Node To A Report

Sunday, May 19th, 2013

Some log formats contain message fields, or other free-form fields which are not easily displayed in reports and summaries, so although these fields are imported from the log files, they are not displayed in the standard summaries when you run an analysis or create a report template. However, you can still add these fields to your report if you want to see them. (more…)


Anonymizing Reports In The Web Module

Saturday, May 18th, 2013

In the Web Module it is possible to replace the details of any field in any report, or analysis, with a random string of characters. This can be done after the reports and storages have been published to the web module, and is a permission that can be set on a per-user or per-group basis.

So, if you don’t want any user to be able to view specific details of a report, such as the individual usernames, or the sender or recipient names for an email report, this can be done.

To set which columns you would like anonymized:
1. Login to the Web Module as an administrator, and go to the Options tab
2. Click on Anonymous Columns
3. Type the name or part of the name of any columns into the Anonymize list. For example, if you add User to the Anonymize list, this will anonymize User, Username, User Agent, and any other column that contains the name User. You can remove any columns from being anonymized by adding them to the Do not anonymize list

4. When you are done, click Save Changes

To apply these settings to specific users:
1. Go to the Web Module tab in Vantage
2. Click on your web module, and click the Connect link on the left to connect to it
3. In the Permissions list, select the user or group that you would like to set this option for, or click Add to add a new user or group
4. Click the Deny radio button for the Identify Users row under the Web Module section
5. Click the Apply Changes button
6. Click the Synchronize link to upload these changes to the web module

Now when this user or any user in this group logs into the web module, any reports that have been published for them will have the values in the specified columns replaced with random strings, although the individual data for each item, such as hits, size and browsing time, will be retained. The same will apply to any new analyses they generate in the Analysis tab.


What’s The Best Way To Report On A Website?

Friday, May 17th, 2013

There are many different ways to report on websites in Vantage, but how do you know that you have got all the hits for the site you’re interested in, and all of it’s sub-domains? (more…)