McAfee MAP-3300-SWG - Web Security Appliance 3300, Product Manual

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Benefits of creating email reports
To keep your email infrastructure running at optimal levels, you need access to up-to-date information
about threats detected in the email flowing through the appliance. Generate email reports to get
information such as:
• Ttypes of threats detected, such as viruses, or spam and phishing messages.
• Messages that had to have an action taken upon them.
• Messages that were prevented from entering or leaving your network.
• Individual sender activity.
Additionally, use the Email Reports feature with the Scheduled Reports feature to create regular
reports, and send them immediately to other people, or at regular intervals.
You can compile a list of, for example, blocked email messages using the
Message Search feature (
Email
|
Message Search
). Message Search cannot
locate messages if the appliance has not received the message body,
such as messages blocked by the Real-time Blackhole Lists (RBLs). In
this situation, use the Email Reports feature to find out about an
individual message.
Introduction to the Email Reports page
Email Reports
contains several sub-pages, accessed from the tabs beneath
Email Interactive Reporting
and
Selection
.
There are four tabs beneath
Email Interactive Reporting
that each provide different views on a report's
results. See View types:
•
Total view
•
Time view
• Itemized view
• Detail view
There are two pages beneath
Selection
:
•
Favorites
enables you to choose a report with pre-defined filters, and generate it immediately. See
Report types.
•
Filter
enables you to further define the data in each Favorite report using standard and advanced
filter settings, and set the period of time for which you want to retrieve data. See Filter types.
View types
Each report that you generate can be presented in one of the following views:
Type of View Definition
Total view Displays results in a bar chart and table format for each action
Time view Displays results in a bar chart and table format over the time specified. Results are
shown in periods of ten minutes for hourly reports, by the hour for 24 hour reports,
every six hours for weekly reports, twelve hours for fortnightly reports, or daily for
monthly reports.
Itemized view
Displays results in a pie chart and table format for each filter criteria, or for all filters.
Detail view Displays all results in a table format. Results are shown for each detection in the
report results.
Overview of Reports features
Email Reports overview
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