This is the fourth of a series of videos showing you how to configure Vantage in detail.
This video follows on from #3, and will cover the Profiles section of the software, and how to use site categorization.
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Vantage Video Series: #3 Importing, Summaries & Aliases
Monday, April 4th, 2011
This is the third of a series of videos showing you how to configure Vantage in detail.
In this video we’ll look at how to import some data into a storage, use the Summaries section, and start customizing Aliases.
Vantage Video Series: #1 Overview
Monday, April 4th, 2011
This is the first of a series of videos showing you how to configure Vantage in detail.
This video is a high level overview, giving you a general insight into the software and its different parts.
Creating and Analyzing SonicWALL Log Files
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
I’ve put together a couple of quick videos to show you how to configure logging on your SonicWALL appliance, and how to import and analyze these log files in WebSpy Vantage.
You can also read through these steps on this page: Analyzing SonicWALL log files with WebSpy.
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:
Microsoft Forefront TMG logs size fields the wrong way around
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
If you’re using Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, there is a bug in the logging that causes Bytes Sent and Bytes Received to be logged in reverse. This seems to only affect the Web Proxy logs – both SQL and W3c . We noticed in a few web reports, that people were generally uploading a lot more than they were downloading. So we checked the logs and verified the buggy behavior: (more…)
Why there is so much anonymous traffic in Microsoft TMG and ISA logs
Monday, July 19th, 2010
One of the most common questions we get asked by users of Microsoft TMG and ISA is why there is so much traffic attributed to the Anonymous user. Even though unauthenticated access to the web has been disabled, they still see the ‘Anonymous’ user as one of the top users in their reports.
So let’s use WebSpy Vantage to drill into that Anonymous user and find out what is going on. (more…)
