Insight Analysis

Overview

Insight Analysis is activated on a user and on a computer. The product logs events of the Agent and displays results in the form of diagrams and graphs. Allows for viewing the percentage of video files copied by users to flash cards, the number of social network sites visited, applications opened etc.

Limited functionality in the trial version. The Details work area with the reports in the tabular form is not available and User names are not shown.

Activating Insight Analysis

You can activate Insight Analysis for a user and a computer. To activate Insight Analysis and to apply basic settings, perform the following steps:

Under User management/Computer management, activate the product for a user, for a computer or for both.
Under Product settings | Insight Analysis | Settings, in the Secure Audit area, select events to be written for Insight Analysis.
To collect data from network shares and thin client storage, additionally enable the Allow thin client storage control and Allow network shares control options for a computer under Computer management | Settings | Client settings.
To additionally define specific network shares for data collection, go to Product settings | Audit | Network share and add either the network shares from where the data is collected (in case of a white list) or only the network shares from where the data collection is blocked (in case of a black list).
To collect data from clouds, additionally define the clouds to control under User management | Settings | Cloud storage.
In the Secure Audit reports calculations area, define how statistics taken from all reports under Reports | Audit panel must be calculated to align with your company needs:
User-based: statistics are taken from a user, for whom the Insight Analysis product is activated. This user can sign in to different computers with one account.
Computer-based: statistics are taken from all users of a computer, for which the Insight Analysis product is activated. Several users with several accounts can sign in to one computer and statistics is calculated for the computer on the whole.
Click Save.

Audit-like functionality. Insight Analysis enables the audit-like functionality for writing insight data to the database, which can lead to database filling if the database is not managed properly.

Defining favorite charts

You can create a custom view that shows your favorite charts.

Go to Insight Analysis | Favorites | My Insight.
Click Select chart.

The Select object dialog appears.
Select the objects and click Save.
The favorite diagrams are now saved under My Insight.

Using Profiles

To quickly view only the necessary Insight information, create profiles. For example, administrator needs to see only the percentage of outbound traffic within last week.

Creating or editing a profile

Define settings to be included in a profile:
- Define a period of time and select whether to display ignored data or data without a category. For details, see: Using categories
- Filter data. For details, see: Using filters.
Click on Save current filters as profile.
The Profile selection dialog appears.
Click on to add new profile or select a previously created profile from the list.

Enter a profile name and click ENTER to confirm.
Click Modify to save the changes.
Close the dialog window.

Loading a profile

Select a profile from the Profile drop:

The selected profile is now loaded.

Filtering reports

Click a part of a graph or a property in the legend to filter all reports based on this property.

The settings now display the property according to which the data is filtered:

To remove the filter, click on X.

Filtering write access. If you filter data by write access, the read access made is also displayed. A user/computer who has write access automatically also has read access.

Exporting reports

You can export reports of a certain panel manually or of a specific time automatically. The export is performed in a PDF file. With a manual export, you can also write the data to a CSV file.

Data for first export. On first report export or for the reports that have’nt been exported for more than 30 days: only the data for the last 24 hours is exported.

Manual export

Under Insight Analysis, select an element of a panel (as shown in the example, Insight Analysis | Audit | External storage).
If necessary, filter the data or select a profile.
To export to PDF, click Export to PDF on the toolbar.
The PDF Export dialog appears.

Click Browse to specify report file location.
Select a location and layout for the displaying of the diagrams (portrait/landscape, number of diagrams per page).
Specify how many pages of a top 100 statistic should be exported (starting with top 1).
Click OK.
The PDF is created.

Automatic export

Go to Product settings | Insight Analysis | Report generation.
In the Server drop-down menu, select a computer where Server is installed. Reports are saved to this computer in the folder defined in the next step.
In the Directory field, click Browse to specify a directory on the Server for storing report files.
Define time and date of the first sending of a report.
To send the export data also to e-mail:
- In the Recipients field, enter an e-mail address or a user name for sending reports there. If you specify a user name, an email must be specified for a user in User management.
- Under Administration | Servers | Mail, proxy and others, define the e-mail address settings. For details, see: Setting up SMTP server
In the Report generation schedule area, click Add.
A new entry appears.
Click on the columns to edit the settings.

Column	Description
Insight	Specifies the data type for which statistics are to be exported.
OU	Defines domains, organizational units or folders to which the export should be limited.
Time period	Specifies the time interval after which an automatic export should take place.
Profile	Defines a user-specific profile or a period for which a report is to be exported. If <None> is selected, the Time period column is taken into account (e.g.: select Every week in Time period column to include the data of the last week to a report).
Charts selection	Determines the diagrams of the respective data usage area that are exported. By default, all diagrams are selected.
Pages from top 100	Specifies how many pages of a top 100 statistic are exported (max. 10).
Charts layout	Determines the output layout: portrait or landscape, number of diagrams per page (number 1: number of rows, number 2: number of columns)
Last run	Displays the date and time of the most recent export.

Click Save.

Protecting user data displaying with a password

You can protect access to user data in reports with simple/double password protection. In the exported data and in the Console, a random sequence of letters is displayed instead of the user data. User data are only shown in the Console after entering the password(s). You need to enter the password each time you move to a different area of Insight Analysis.

Enabling password protection

Go to Product settings | Insight Analysis | Settings.
Enable the Protect user data with password check box.
Select whether to protect with one or with two passwords.
Enter the password:
Near the password, click Change... .
The dialog for entering password appears.
Enter the password and confirm with OK.
Save the settings.

Changing password

Go to Product settings | Insight Analysis | Settings.
Click in the password field and then on Change... .
The dialog for entering passwords opens.
Enter the current password and define the new password.

Click OK to confirm.