Blue Coat Reporter

Manage Web activity on your network

Blue Coat Reporter gives managers powerful visibility into all Web-related user activity. Beyond URL Filtering, Reporter provides customizable, at-a-glance dashboards and reports along with intuitive drill-down capabilities making it an invaluable part of security, compliance, bandwidth management, and other business-critical efforts necessary in today’s competitive environment. Reporter quickly processes robust log data from Blue Coat® ProxySG, WebFilter, ProxyClient, and ProxyAV, providing easy-to-view reports for security specialists, department managers, HR managers, and network administrators. Blue Coat Reporter provides the ultimate architecture for complete Web visibility and control.

Learn how Blue Coat Reporter can:

Deliver customized, role-based dashboards and reports to different managers.
Easily and intuitively drill down from general trends to specific activity.
Quickly process even the largest logs, while minimizing disk space requirements.
Distribute and automatically update comprehensive views of Web activity in a variety of formats.
Provide visibility into Web traffic performance, trends, errors, security threats, bandwidth impact, streaming traffic levels and more.

The Blue Coat Reporter Dashboard - an intuitive visibility interface

The Blue Coat Reporter Dashboard -- an intuitive visibility interface
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Comprehensive Security and Web Traffic Information

100% New Design
Entirely new graphical interface supporting 50 concurrent reporting administrators with directory integration for easy access.
Interactive Dashboard
Customizable dashboards support at-a-glance, role-based overviews of user activity while intuitive drilldown navigation simplifies access to deeper details.
Real-Time Visibility
Displays are automatically updated as new logs become available; or continuous log uploads can be configured to provide an up-to-the minute view of user Web activity.
Flexible Reporting
Powerful pre-defined reports and easy custom report creation highlight Web activity information:
- Spyware and other Malware
- Traffic Profiles
- Filtering Categories (URLs)
- Web Content
- Technical Profiles
- Sessions
- Users/Authentication
- and more...

Scalable Performance

Performance-optimized design ensures rapid processing of even large log files, while minimizing the amount of server space required.

Content Filtering and Trend Analysis

Track user Web usage patterns including access attempts, blocked sites, access by category, and much more.

Customized Access

Every user is unique. Panel locations, display options, filters, and other features are retained as they were during the previous session. How reports are organized, reminders of the “Most Recent” or “Most Frequently Used” reports, and automatic “scheduled” report settings are maintained for each individual user to maximize productivity.

Administrator/HR View

Reporter provides information to meet the needs of different network administrators and HR departments. For example, an administrator will want to understand the impact of users on his network in terms of amounts of data downloaded. HR departments want to know when and where users are going on the Internet. Filtering, Content and User reports are key to these personnel.

Security View

Security administrators can evaluate risks and track user activity that is potentially dangerous, and quickly determine users with malicious content, including spyware. Plus, view a security analysis with sub-reports that include malware ids, malware IP detail, malware URL detail and malware user detail. Security views provide administrators with greater visibility into the strength and stability of their network.

Technical View

Network administrators can use Reporter to measure Web traffic performance, trends, errors, bandwidth impact, streaming traffic levels and more. Technical reports include information for response codes, processing actions, operations, upload MIME types, Web browsers and operating systems. Comprehensive and custom reports allow for analysis to track user and enterprise Web activity by user or geography.

The Blue Coat Reporter Dashboard can be customized for different roles, such as this example of a possible Security dashboard

The Blue Coat Reporter Dashboard can be customized for different roles, such as this example of a possible Security dashboard
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Blue Coat Reporter is available in three versions: Standard, Enterprise and Premium editions. Each version offers identical functionality and performance, making it easy to determine which version is right for you. All reporting options, dashboard features, role-based management, and other capabilities are enabled in each edition of Reporter. The only difference is in the maximum number of log lines that you may need Reporter to store and analyze.

Reporter Edition	Version Sizing Restrictions
Standard Edition	Up to 50 Million log lines (typical for a 750 user network, 60 days of activity)
Enterprise Edition	Up to 2.5 Billion log lines (typical for a 35,000 user network, 60 days of activity)
Premium Edition	Up to 10 Billion log lines (typical for 150,000 user network, 60 days of activity)

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows: Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server for Windows
Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and AS
VMWare ESX running either of the above supported operating systems

Although Blue Coat Reporter may successfully install and run on other versions of Linux, the behavior on these systems cannot be predicted. Therefore, Blue Coat does not support Linux operating systems outside of recent Red Hat releases.