Reporting

Reports can be generated on the firewall to provide an overview at a glance about which applications are most popular or how many threats were detected for a certain timeframe.

The firewall has a set of predefined reports that run overnight and provide the most common insights.

Pre-defined reports

These reports provide a wide variety of information about the types of applications, threats, traffic, and URL filtering activity. They are set to run at 2 A.M., but if this is not a convenient time, you can change the start time in Device | Setup | Management | Logging and Reporting Settings | Log Export and reporting and change Report Runtime. As you can see in the following screenshot, you can also disable some reports in the Pre-Defined Reports tab by unchecking them and committing the change:

Figure 9.15 – Enabling or disabling pre-defined reports

You can find the reports in Monitor | Reports. On the right-hand side, you can select which...