Monitoring Application Traffic

The Home > Traffic Analysis page displays the following mobile app usage and network performance statistics in the dashboard:

  • Web reputations
  • Web categories
  • Applications
  • Destinations
  • WLANs
  • Roles
  • Device types
  • Users

User roles determine your access to device-level or folder-level information.

Figure 1 shows charts of the Web Reputations and Web Categories trends over a one-week period.

Figure 1  Traffic Analysis Dashboard

Change Your Views

From the dashboard, you can change your views from the default chart views to tables and graphs as follows:

  • Click to view usage data in a table.
  • Click to view the percent usage of each category in a chart. Hover your mouse above each section of the chart to view the category name and usage, in KB and percentage (%).
  • Click to view a graph of usage in MB over time.

Click the Details hyperlink, to see the following information:

  • User Name: The name of the user.
  • For all VPN users, the User Name column displays the configured username.

  • Bytes: The total usage in bytes (MB).
  • Packets: The total number of packets transmitted or received.
  • Web Reputation: The web reputation, which indicates the safety of the site.
  • Web Category: The type of website.
  • Application: The number of users connected to applications detected in your network per level of web reputation.
  • Destination: The number of destinations reached through the given category.
  • User Role: The number of roles assigned to the user.
  • Devices: The number of devices connected to the given category.
  • Device MAC: The MAC address of the user.
  • WLANs: The number of WLANs to which the user is connected.

Search and Filter

You can apply filters to your views for all categories, except for Web Reputations.

  1. Go to Home > Traffic Analysis, then click on the Details hyperlink of any category you want to view.
  2. Enter text into the Search field.
  3. Click to apply the filter. AirWave displays matching results in the Details table. Figure 2 shows web categories whose information contains the text string web.

Figure 2  Search Results Showing Filters

Export the Data

You can export all data or filtered data, as shown in Export Options.

Figure 3  Export Options