Viewpoint Reporting

Enterprises today use the Internet to communicate with customers, partners and telecommuters and to perform essential everyday business tasks. To oversee these critical business functions, network administrators need a clear view of Internet and network activities, such as network bandwidth usage, attack activity, and employee Internet use, to enhance security and manage bandwidth needs.

ViewPoint, a Web-based graphical reporting tool, enables administrators to understand and manage their network by turning comprehensive log data from SonicWALL network security appliances into meaningful information without the complexity and expense of commercial reporting packages.

ViewPoint compliments and extends your security solution by delivering comprehensive, high-level historical reports and real-time monitoring. It provides everything you need to get up and running in one easy-to-install product, including a Web server, syslog server, database, and reporting software. ViewPoint uses a Web-based interface and easily installs on any Windows NT or Windows 2000 computer on the network.

ViewPoint generates real-time and historical reports to create a thorough view of network and security activities with graphical summaries of user behavior, security threats, and network Internet use. By providing easy-to-understand, Web-based reports, ViewPoint simplifies the management, control, monitoring and planning required for secure enterprise networks.

ViewPoint Reporting Features and Benefits

Ease of Use. ViewPoint includes an integrated Web server, syslog server, summarization and scheduling engines, and database for quick, one-step installation. Its intuitive user interface saves deployment and training time. Whether connecting securely from a local or remote system, using a standard browser greatly simplifies access and navigation.

Web-based User Interface. All reporting functions are performed from ViewPoint's intuitive Web-based User Interface, simplifying deployment and access from a local or remote system using a browser-based application.

Comprehensive Set of Graphical Reports. ViewPoint offers a comprehensive set of real-time and historical reports including firewall attacks, bandwidth usage, Web site visits, user activity and more, allowing organizations to be aware of suspicious activity and to ensure high employee productivity. ViewPoint provides summaries of all types of network attacks and informative reports of user behavior, identifying unproductive or bandwidth intensive activities.

On-Demand Reporting. ViewPoint provides immediate reporting functionality for users requiring quick results, saving time and administration overhead.

Real-time and Historical Reports. ViewPoint provides dynamic real-time reports and comprehensive historical reports, allowing organizations to recognize suspicious activity and to ensure high employee productivity. ViewPoint provides summaries of all types of network attacks and informative reports of user behavior, identifying time-wasting or bandwidth intensive activities.

Aggregate Reports. ViewPoint supports multiple firewalls, allowing organizations with more than one firewall to view aggregate reports of their firewall activities from a single application. This helps organizations better understand their Internet bandwidth usage and plan for future capacity needs.

Bandwidth Reports per Interface. ViewPoint provides reports on Bandwidth usage through Ethernet ports, LAN users of bandwidth, WAN users of bandwidth, and WLAN users of bandwidth.

Scheduled Reports. ViewPoint includes support for e-mailing and archiving daily/ weekly/monthly reports, allowing users to share data with the management team and to archive the reports for future use.

Reporting Based on User Accounts. ViewPoint provides support for reports based on individual user names instead of their system's IP address or hostname.

Flexible Number of Top Users and Sites. ViewPoint provides the flexibility to view reports for a large range of top sites, top users, and top sites per user, including 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100.

Log Viewer. ViewPoint offers Log Viewer, providing users with the ability to search the database for a specific firewall activity type.

Concurrent Sessions. ViewPoint allows multiple users to log into the application as the same admin user, allowing greater flexibility in administration.