Application Visibility Overview

Application Overview

You can view information related to bandwidth consumption, session establishment, and the risks associated with your applications on the APPLICATIONS tab and block all users or only selected users from accessing the application.

You can select either the Chart view or Grid view to view your data. By default, the data is displayed in Chart view.

APPLICATIONS—Chart View

Click the Chart View link for a brief summary of the top 50 applications consuming maximum bandwidth in your network. The data is presented graphically as a bubble graph. The data is refreshed automatically based on the time range selection, device selection, and filter criteria.

Hover over your applications to view critical information such as total number of sessions, total number of blocks, category, bandwidth consumed, risk levels, and characteristics. You can also view the top five users accessing your application.

APPLICATIONS—Grid View

Click the Grid View link for comprehensive details on applications. You can view top users by volume, top applications by volume, top category by volume, top characteristics by volume, and risk level. You can also view the data in a tabular format. You can sort the applications in ascending or descending order based on application name, volume, and total sessions. Use the widgets to get an overall, high‐level view of your applications, users, and the content traversing your network. Users are displayed by usernames or IP addresses.

To block an application from the grid view, select an application and click Block Applications. The Block page is displayed. Click Block Application or select a user and click Block User(s). See Block Applications.

User Overview

You can view information related to the bandwidth consumption and session establishment by users on the USERS tab and block the users from accessing either all applications or only selected applications. Users are displayed on the page by username, and if the user name is not available, by source IP address.

There are two ways to view your data. You can select either the Chart View or Grid View.

USERS—Chart View

By default, the user’s data is shown in the Chart view. It shows the top 50 users consuming maximum bandwidth in your network. The data is presented graphically as a bubble graph. The data is refreshed automatically based on the time range selection, device selection, and filter criteria.

Hover over a username or source IP to view critical information such as total number of sessions and bandwidth consumed. You can block the user or applications that the user is accessing.

USERS—Grid View

Click Grid View to view the user’s data in the tabular format. You can view top users by volume and top applications by volume. Grid view provides a detailed view of all the users.

The sessions and applications are shown as links. When the user clicks a session link, the All Events page appears with all security events. When the user clicks an application link, the Application tab in Grid view appears with the correct filter applied.

To block a user from the grid view, select a user and click Block User. The Block page is displayed. Click Block User or select an application and click Block Applications(s). See Block Users.

Source IP Address Overview

You can view information related to bandwidth consumption and session establishment of the source IP addresses on the SOURCE IP tab and block the source IP address from accessing all applications or only selected applications.

You can select either the Chart View link or Grid View link to view your data.

SOURCE IP—Chart View

Click the Chart View link for a brief summary of the top 50 source IP addresses consuming the maximum bandwidth in your network for a time span of one day, by default. The data is presented graphically as a bubble graph. The data is refreshed automatically based on the time range selection, device selection, and filter criteria.

Hover over the source IP addresses to view critical information such as total number of sessions, total bandwidth consumption, and top five applications. To view all the applications of an IP address, click View All Applications.

SOURCE IP—Grid View

Click the Grid View link for comprehensive details of source IP addresses. You can view top source IP addresses by volume and top applications by volume. You can also view the data in a tabular format that includes sortable columns. You can sort the source IP addresses, volume, and total sessions in ascending or descending order. Use the widgets to get an overall, high‐level view of your source IP addresses.

The column width, sort order, and column index are continual. The next time you log in, they will be right where you left them.

To block a source IP address from the grid view, select the source IP address and click Block IP. The Block page is displayed. Click Block User or select an application and click Block Application(s). See Block Source IP Addresses.