A lot of the sample reports that come with WebSpy Vantage have a section of the report for Productivity, so what does this mean and how can you customize it?
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Archive for the ‘Microsoft Threat Management Gateway’ Category
What is Productivity?
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
How To: Reporting On Categories
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
This article will show you how to report on categories of websites with WebSpy Vantage.
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Vantage Update 2.2.0.83
Thursday, December 13th, 2012
We have released an automatic update for the Vantage range of applications. This update includes some new loader formats as well minor fixes and improvements.
Of note, this release includes support for the new format of IronPort, Palo Alto Threat and URL filtering, Clearswift Email Appliance, and Infoblox NIOS DNS queries; as well as improvements for SonicWALL, Barracuda and Fortinet loaders. (more…)
Microsoft TMG SQL to Text Script
Friday, June 29th, 2012
Microsoft Forefront TMG logs activity to it’s internal SQL Express database. In addition to the extra steps you need to perform to access this database from a remote server, importing data into Vantage is much slower than importing from W3C Text logs.
You can easily change the logging from SQL Express to W3C text logs in TMG’s logging options. However, TMG relies on the SQL Express database for it’s own reporting. Of course, we argue that Vantage more than replaces TMG’s default reporting, however it’s understandable that you don’t necessarily want to ‘loose’ a feature of TMG in order to gain faster log imports in WebSpy Vantage.
But, with a little effort, you can in fact have the best of both worlds.
If you do not want to change your default logging you can utilize this MSDE To Text script to convert your TMG SQL databases into W3C formatted text files which can be easily imported into Vantage.
Vantage Update 2.2.0.68 (Exchange 2010, Juniper and IronPort Traffic Logs, and more)
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
We have released an automatic update for the Vantage range of applications. This update includes some new loader formats, an experimental feature as well minor fixes and improvements.
Of note, this release includes full support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 Tracking logs (previously supported with the Exchange 2007 loader, but missing a few fields), as well as JunOS (Juniper) Traffic Logs, IronPort Traffic Monitor Logs and Squid Syslog. (more…)
Watch your TMG’s waist line. Switch log format and reduce fat now!
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
We often recommend customers using Microsoft ISA or TMG switch their logging to W3C text file, in order to get the best possible import speed, and also because the text logs are much easier to access from a remote machine (see my previous article on accessing TMG’s SQL Express Log database). Logging to the default MSDE or SQL Express databases also requires more resources in terms of processor utilization, memory consumption and disk I/O.
But there is another advantage to switching to text. They take up considerably less disk space. Here are some figures:
Vantage Update 2.2.0.51 (UrlCategory Fix for Microsoft TMG)
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
We have released an update to the Vantage range of applications to fix an issue with the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) loader. (more…)
