Product guide

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or option definitions, click ? in the interface.
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Select Menu | Configuration | Report Server Settings.
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Click Log Source, then from the Actions menu, click New.
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Select the User-Defined Columns tab.
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Configure up to four user-defined columns using the available options, and click OK.
Processing and Post-Processing options
When configuring a log source, use the Processing and Post-Processing options to determine how
McAfee Content Security Reporter handles the data it gets from the log files. Processing setup involves
deciding if you want to include every detail of a log record, add details that might be missing, and
change how data appears, and what to do with the log file when processing is finished.
Guide to the page views setting
The Condense log records into page views setting on the Processing tab for a log source affects queries and disk
space requirements for the reporting database. Page views, sometimes referred to as hits, are related
to HTTP requests.
Each line of a log file is an HTTP request for an element that makes up a webpage. Viewing one
webpage can result in multiple lines of data in the log file, each line equaling one page view. In McAfee
Content Security Reporter, the Condense log records into page views option consolidates multiple lines of data
from a log file into a single page view in reports. Condensing log records into page views results in
more concise reports when using either summary or detailed queries. This option also reduces storage
requirements for the reporting database and increases performance during log imports. For example,
condensing log records into page views could potentially reduce a 1 GB log file down to a 100 MB log
file. The file size is currently limited to 1 GB.
By default, the Condense log records into page views option is enabled. If you disable this option, each
webpage you visit and each element on the page are logged as separate HTTP requests. For example,
if you visit www.example.com, and that page contains multiple elements, then the log data would look
like this:
www.example.com
www.example.com/rss.xml
www.example.com/advertisement.js
adserver.example.com/ad1.jpg
adserver.example.com/ad2.jpg
adserver.example.com/ad3.jpg
With Condense log records into page views enabled, your log data will show only one HTTP request as a page
view—www.example.com.
Log sources and log formats
Log Sources
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