8 05, 2013

Vantage Update 2.2.0.90

By | 2013-05-08T07:10:53+00:00 May 8th, 2013|Astaro, Email Analysis, Firewall Analysis, How To, IronPort, Loaders, Log File Analysis, Organization, Profiles, Reports, Sales and Marketing, Scheduled Tasks, Software Updates, storages, System Administration, Tips and Best Practices, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, Web Module, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

Release Date: 3rd April 2013 Changes since 2.2.0.84: Log Formats: Apache: Alteration to Apache IBM format (duration field) Astaro: Fixed Date/Time field (time missing) ContentKeeper: Added support for new ContentKeeper syslog format IronPort: Added Ironport W3C format IronPort: Fixed Bounce Mail detection & importing IronPort: Renamed Ironport 'C350 mail' to 'C-series mail' IronPort: Improved C-Series [...]

29 06, 2012

Microsoft TMG SQL to Text Script

By | 2012-06-29T14:44:38+00:00 June 29th, 2012|How To, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Third Party, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis|0 Comments

Microsoft Forefront TMG logs activity to it's internal SQL Express database. In addition to the extra steps you need to perform to access this database from a remote server, importing data into Vantage is much slower than importing from W3C Text logs. You can easily change the logging from SQL Express to W3C text logs [...]

4 04, 2011

Vantage Video Series: #4 Profiles & Site Categorization

By | 2011-04-04T13:40:24+00:00 April 4th, 2011|How To, Log File Analysis, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, WebSpy|0 Comments

This is the fourth of a series of videos showing you how to configure Vantage in detail. This video follows on from #3, and will cover the Profiles section of the software, and how to use site categorization. WebSpy Vantage Ultimate - Profiles from Fastvue on Vimeo.

4 04, 2011

Vantage Video Series: #3 Importing, Summaries & Aliases

By | 2011-04-04T13:27:00+00:00 April 4th, 2011|Aliases, How To, Log File Analysis, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis|0 Comments

This is the third of a series of videos showing you how to configure Vantage in detail. In this video we'll look at how to import some data into a storage, use the Summaries section, and start customizing Aliases. WebSpy Vantage Ultimate - Importing, Summaries and Aliases from Fastvue on Vimeo.

22 12, 2010

Creating and Analyzing SonicWALL Log Files

By | 2010-12-22T15:28:52+00:00 December 22nd, 2010|Firewall Analysis, How To, Log File Analysis, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, WebSpy|0 Comments

I’ve put together a couple of quick videos to show you how to configure logging on your SonicWALL appliance, and how to import and analyze these log files in WebSpy Vantage. You can also read through these steps on this page: Analyzing SonicWALL log files with WebSpy. […]

27 10, 2010

Watch your TMG's waist line. Switch log format and reduce fat now!

By | 2010-10-27T04:57:46+00:00 October 27th, 2010|Firewall Analysis, Log File Analysis, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, storages, System Administration, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, WebSpy|0 Comments

We often recommend customers using Microsoft ISA or TMG switch their logging to W3C text file, in order to get the best possible import speed, and also because the text logs are much easier to access from a remote machine (see my previous article on accessing TMG’s SQL Express Log database). Logging to the default [...]