Application Control Settings

Application Control > Settings

Administrators can configure the following setting:

• Enabling Log Application Control events for bandwidth statistic (Default: enabled)

• Setting the logging interval (Default: 300 seconds)

• Note: If the Application Control feature is not enabled, no logs are recorded and the Dashboard's Application Bandwidth (Application Control > Settings) will not display data.

To configure the Application Control settings:

1. Go to Application Control > Settings.

2. Select one or more of the following by checking the check box:

3. Log Application Control events for bandwidth statistic — Selecting this option allows you to monitor and report all application activity that is allowed by the Application Control polices. (Logging activity is normally turned off by default.)

4. Logging interval XX seconds — Changing this option defines when to write to an application log record. For example, the default interval is 300 seconds (five minutes). No matter how many times one client accesses the same application in that five-minute interval, there will be only one log entry.

A user accessing the Internet using one of the tracked applications may create many sessions in a very short time. In order to prevent a flooding of events into the log database, this option can limit how often one event record is written for the activity. This limitation technique keeps the violation log from becoming too large and affecting performance. Admins may change the logging interval if they want to record to the violation log more frequently or less frequently.

3. Click Save.