Generate User/Group Activity Reports
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Generate User/Group Activity Reports

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Generate User/Group Activity Reports

User/Group Activity reports summarize the web activity of individual users or user groups. Both reports include the same information except for the
Browsing Summary by URL Category
and
Browse time calculations
, which only the User Activity report includes.
You must configure User-ID on the firewall to access the list of users and user groups.
  1. Configure the browse times and number of logs for User/Group Activity reports.
    Required only if you want to change the default values.
    1. Select
      Device
      Setup
      Management
      , edit the Logging and Reporting Settings, and select the
      Log Export and Reporting
      tab.
    2. For the
      Max Rows in User Activity Report
      , enter the maximum number of rows that the detailed user activity report supports (range is 1-1048576, default is 5000). This determines the number of logs that the report analyzes.
    3. Enter the
      Average Browse Time
      in seconds that you estimate users should take to browse a web page (range is 0-300, default is 60). Any request made after the average browse time elapses is considered a new browsing activity. The calculation uses container pages (logged in the URL Filtering logs) as the basis and ignores any new web pages that are loaded between the time of the first request (start time) and the average browse time. For example, if you set the
      Average Browse Time
      to two minutes and a user opens a web page and views that page for five minutes, the browse time for that page will still be two minutes. This is done because the firewall can’t determine how long a user views a given page. The average browse time calculation ignores sites categorized as web advertisements and content delivery networks.
    4. For the
      Page Load Threshold
      , enter the estimated time in seconds for page elements to load on the page (default is 20). Any requests that occur between the first page load and the page load threshold are assumed to be elements of the page. Any requests that occur outside of the page load threshold are assumed to be the user clicking a link within the page.
    5. Click
      OK
      to save your changes.
  2. Generate the User/Group Activity report.
    1. Select
      Monitor
      PDF Reports
      User Activity Report
      .
    2. Click
      Add
      and then enter a
      Name
      for the report.
    3. Create the report:
      • User Activity Report—Select
        User
        and enter the
        Username
        or
        IP address
        (IPv4 or IPv6) of the user.
      • Group Activity Report—Select
        Group
        and select the
        Group Name
        of the user group.
    4. Select the
      Time Period
      for the report.
    5. (
      Optional
      ) Select the
      Include Detailed Browsing
      check box (default is cleared) to include detailed URL logs in the report.
      The detailed browsing information can include a large volume of logs (thousands of logs) for the selected user or user group and can make the report very large.
    6. To run the report on demand, click
      Run Now
      .
    7. To save the report configuration, click
      OK
      . You can’t save the output of User/Group Activity reports on the firewall. To schedule the report for email delivery, see Schedule Reports for Email Delivery.

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