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Understand the most common and useful features
This section of the Evaluation Guide leads the evaluator through the most common
and useful features of the Security Reporter, starting with the elements that should
be configured first, then moving on to the usage of the many different types of
reports available in the SR. You are directed through the normal path of initial
setup, and then led through a standard use case that explains how to investigate a
violation of your Internet Acceptable Use Policy.
After stepping through this section of the Evaluation Guide, you will understand
how to set up powerful reports that can be e-mailed on a regular basis, thus mini-
mizing the effort required for ongoing configuration of the product. In short, by
pursuing these exercises, you will discover that the Security Reporter is both easy
to use while at the same time best in class in the level of detailed reporting it
provides.
TIP
: After the SR appliance is installed, allow the Security Reporter to run for several days
prior to evaluating reports in order to optimize the evaluation experience. This will allow
the SR to accumulate multiple days of data and present more meaningful reports. Having
performed these preliminary steps, the SR will function properly on day one of the install
with some reports showing no data (e.g. “canned” Summary Reports).
