1.3 Monitoring and Reporting

WebMarshal provides user interfaces for monitoring and daily administration of Web access policy. Using the Console, administrators can monitor server performance, review user sessions and web browsing activity, and adjust user permissions and quotas.

Administrators and managers can generate reports on WebMarshal activity with a choice of reporting options:

•The Marshal Reporting Console is a web-based application that can be deployed to support reporting on WebMarshal and MailMarshal. Marshal Reporting Console provides report scheduling and multiple export formats. This application is included for all WebMarshal trial users and customers.

•WebMarshal can also log activity in W3C or WELF format. You can use these text log files with exter­nal tools to produce reports that cover different types of proxy and firewall devices.

•WebMarshal can log activity using the Syslog protocol.