Application trend

This help contains the following topics:

Introduction

This feature collects statistics about application traffic and application-related threat events (including IPS and anti-virus events) within a specific time span on a device. The statistics results are displayed in graphs, enabling you to quickly identify key periods of traffic and threat events, especially those with peak and trough traffic and those when threat events frequently occur and high-risk events occur. Then, you can adjust the bandwidth control policies and security protection policies accordingly, which benefits bandwidth resource allocation and internal network security protection.

To configure multiple statistics collection conditions (such as the applications and the source IP address) and view the trends of corresponding traffic and threats, click Stats conditions.

To export the statistics matching the specified statistics collection conditions as a PDF file to your local PC, click Export report. You can obtain the traffic usage and detected threat events of the device in the export file.

Traffic

The Traffic page displays the application-based traffic trend.

Perform this task to generate the traffic trend report and export the report.

Procedure

  1. Click Stats conditions.

  2. Configure the statistics collection conditions.

Table-1 Statistics collection condition configuration items for the traffic trend report

Item

Description

Application

Select applications for statistics collection. Options are:

  • Top 5 applications.

  • Specify applications.

Traffic direction

Select a direction of traffic for statistics collection. Options are:

  • Upstream.

  • Downstream.

  • Bidirectional.

Time range

Select a time range from the list. Options are:

  • Today.

  • Past week.

  • Past 30 days.

  • Custom.

Query object

Enter an IP address of a host for statistics collection.

  1. Click Start.

To export the traffic trend report, click Export report.

Threats

The Threats page displays the application-based threat trend.

Perform this task to generate the threat trend report and export the report.

Procedure

  1. Click Stats conditions.

  2. Configure the statistics collection conditions.

Table-2 Statistics collection condition configuration items for the threat trend report

Item

Description

Application

Select applications for statistics collection. Options are:

  • Top 5 applications.

  • Specify applications.

Time range

Select a time range from the list. Options are:

  • Today.

  • Past week.

  • Past 30 days.

  • Custom.

  1. Click Start.

To export the threat trend report, click Export report.

vSystem support information

Support of non-default vSystems for this feature depends on the device model. This feature is available on the Web interface only if it is supported.