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Web Appliance Report....?

Faffles

I am using Sophos Web Appliance and need to generate a browse time web usage report by user by TIME-OF-DAY.  Is there a browse report that will give me the time-of-day that a user accessed a particular site.  I can only find reports that sum up the time, but I need to know the exact time access to a site was made.....thanks 

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    Hi Faffles,

    Welcome to SophosTalk.

    To look at individual requests to a site you would need to use the Search facility rather than reports.  Eg. 'Search > Recent Activity Search > By User'.  You can filter this by:

    - date/time range

    - user

    - status (eg. blocked/allowed etc)

    - site

    To make it easier, most of the reports you can 'click-through' to get more granular info.  For example:

    1. Top Users by browse time  Shows the top users for a time period.   Click on the user....
    2. Browse time by user Shows the top categories/domains for this user.  Click on the domain...
    3. Search > By Site shows the top visitors to this site.  Click on the user again...
    4. Search > By User Shows the individual requests to this site by this specific user.

    Hope this helps,

    Tom.

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    I have a similar requirement for a report that breaks down web usage by time of day. We have a less restrictive policy outside of working hours so the daily report that the managers currently see includes sites we would not want staff to be accessing during working hours, but no way of knowing when they were accessing it. I understand I can drill down to the detail through the console and have been doing so but I don't want the managers to have to keep requesting that I do this for every suspicious event. Is there any way that a report can be produced that gives this time of day breakdown?

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    Hey guys,

    I know I'm a little late to this thread (only by 3 years...), but if reporting is still a problem for you on the Web Appliance, we're seeking feedback on our latest Fastvue Reporter beta release, specifically for the Web Appliance.

    Fastvue Sophos Reporter for Web Appliance can generate not only detailed web activity reports, but 'useful' web activity reports. They group the horrible URL detail into browsing sessions with nice green 'Gantt-Chart-style' bars, so you can easily tell who or what site was browsed the longest, along with when they started and stopped. You can then expand these session to see all the URLs, Timestamps, Actions and Categories if needed.

    Our Site Clean feature also cleans up most web traffic to show you sites actually visited, rather than all the domains that make up a website such as CDNs and advertising.

    Here's the release announcement. 

    http://fastvue.co/sophos/blog/introducing-fastvue-sophos-reporter-web-appliance/

    Keen to know what you think!

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