3.5	Bandwidth consumption

The Bandwidth Consumption node allows you to monitor bandwidth usage through the following reports:

3.5.1

Top Sites

The Top Sites node, displays websites visited details, sorted by bandwidth with the site having the highest bandwidth at the top. The list displays also the number of times a website was accessed (Hits) and the Web Category, that briefly describes the web site contents

Group by Domains

The list can be grouped by website-visited domain if Group by Domains in the Display Filters group is selected.

To view each site visited from the selected domain click the domain entry, this displays Site Access History in a new page. Site Access History contains also the traffic over time chart and the hits over time chart. See Traffic Charts. Click a site entry to view the list of users that visited the site. See User History Details.

Hide Referrals

When selected this option the list will contain most likely websites manually entered by the user into browser. All linked sub-sites will be hidden.

3.5.2

Top Users

This node displays websites, sorted by windows user or IP address. This report is sorted with the user who consumes the most bandwidth at the top. For unauthenticated users the IP address is displayed.

3.5.3

Top Categories

This node displays the top categories browsed with the categories carrying the highest bandwidth on top.

3.5.4

Traffic Charts

•	Show Traffic Over Time Chart to view a graph that shows the traffic during the selected date.

•	Show Hits Over Time Charts to view a graph that reports the number of hits by time of day.

•	Show IM Messages Over Time Chart to view the number of Instant Messages received\sent during the selected date.

3.5.5

View data by date

By default, this view lists today’s default date. To view data for other days, use the controls on the upper right of the view:

•	Previous day – click on the back button .

•	Next day –click on the forward button .

•	Specific date – click on the calendar button , select the required date and click Go to retrieve data for that date.

NOTE: If no data for a specific date is available (e.g. a future date is selected), an error message stating that data was unable to be retrieved is displayed.

NOTE: The information displayed is not automatically refreshed. Click refresh button on the upper right of the view to update the information selected.