Profiling Events

Located at Profiling > Profiling Events.

The Profiling Event Dashboard gives an overview of profile events.

Figure: The Profiling Events page

Reporting Period

At the top of the page you can set both the reporting period and resolution, from one minute to 4 weeks.

Profiles

This infographic shows a timeline of the number of events with the profile(s) involved. Circle diameters represent the number of events. The peak number of events in the timeline for each profile are highlighted in red.

Severities

This infographic shows a timeline of the number of events along with their estimated severity level(s). Circle diameters represent the number of events. The peak number of events in the timeline for each severity level are highlighted in red.

Event Entries

Event Entries is dynamically generated; you must click Click To Load to populate the table. The Event Entries table gives a breakdown of profile events with the following entries:

• The unique event ID number.
• The time at which event occurred.
• The category or profile name.
• The severity of the event as a percentage.
• The source IP address.
• The target IP address.
• The application, user defined if it exists. See also Configuration > Profiling and Flow Details.
• Any information other error/status message, e.g. Profiler Exception.

A drop-down selector lets you choose the number of the most events to display.

Flow Details

To access a detailed overview of any flow, click on the adjacent Drill Down icon . This provides a complete overview of that flow, listing:

• The source address, a link to search forensics and any associated blacklists.
• Source MAC address.
• Destination address, a link to search forensics and any associated blacklists.
• Destination MAC address.
• Source port.
• Destination port.
• Appid: the application ID is a unique identifier for each application.

1. In GigaFlow, Appid is a positive or negative integer value. The way in which the Appid is generated depends on which of the 3 ways the application is defined within the system. Following the hierarchy outlined in Configuration > Profiling -- Apps/Options -- Defined Applications, a negative unique integer value is assigned if (1) the application is associated with a Profile Object or (2) if it is named in the system. If the application is given by its port number only (3), a unique positive integer value is generated that is a function of the lowest port number and the IP protocol.

• Application. See Appid, above, and Configuration > Profiling.
• Number of packets in flow.
• Number of bytes.
• User.
• Domain.
• Fwevent. See
• Fwextcode.
• Profile, e.g. PCs.
• Net device IP address, name and number of flows.
• In-Interface.
• Out-Interface.

See Glossary for more about flow record fields used by GigaFlow.

See also Search for instructions to access the Graphical Flow Mapping feature.

Filtered Views

By clicking any Category, Severity, Source IP or Target IP in the Event Entries table, you will be taken to a version of the Events Dashboard filtered for that item.

See Dashboards > Events for an overview of the structure of this page.