User Guide

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Cisco Advanced Web Security Reporting Installation, Setup, and User Guide
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Installation and Setup
• Introduction, page 1-1
• System Requirements and Sizing & Scaling Recommendations, page 1-3
• Set-up Overview, page 1-3
• Upgrade the Advanced Web Security Reporting Application, page 1-3
• Install and Configure the Advanced Web Security Reporting Application, page 1-4
• Licensing and Migration, page 1-7
• Create the Folder Structure for Access and Traffic Monitor Log Files, page 1-9
• Import and Index Historical Data, page 1-9
• Set Up On-going Data Transfers, page 1-11
• Set Up Department Membership Query (Optional) , page 1-14
• Edit the List of URL Categories (Optional), page 1-17
Introduction
The Cisco Advanced Web Security Reporting application provides reports and dashboards that are
designed to give insight into very large volumes of data from multiple Cisco Web Security Appliances,
and from Cisco’s Cloud Web Security (CWS) gateways. The Advanced Web Security Reporting
application includes a data collection-and-reporting application, and a related server that forwards log
data collected from Web Security Appliances (WSAs) and CWS services.
Note Cloud Web Security is sometimes referred to as “ScanSafe.”
The Advanced Web Security Reporting application receives log data and stores it in the default/main
index. You can view these data using predefined reports, and you can also perform ad hoc searches using
the “flashtimeline” view and the Web tracking forms.