TRITON - Web Security Help, Version 7.7 - Websense

Reporting AdministrationThe database maintenance job performs database maintenance tasks andpreserves optimal performance. This job runs nightly, by default.The Internet browse time (IBT) job analyzes the data received and calculatesbrowse time for each client. The IBT database job is resource intensive, affectingmost database resources. This job runs nightly, by default.When trend data retention is enabled, the trend job uses daily trend data createdby the ETL job to update weekly, monthly, and yearly trend records for use inpresentation reports.Even when trend data retention is disabled, the trend job processes data from thethreats (AMT) partition to provide trend data on the Threats dashboard.This job runs nightly.The Advanced Malware Threat (AMT) ETL job receives, processes, andinserts data into the threats partition database. Only log records that include aseverity ranking (see How severity is assigned to suspicious activity, page 39) arerecorded in the threats partition. Data from this partition is used to populate theThreats dashboard (see Threats dashboard, page 35).Certain aspects of these database jobs can be configured on the Settings > Reporting >Log Database page. See Log Database administration settings, page 420, for moreinformation.When configuring the start time for the maintenance job and the Internet browse timejob, consider system resources and network traffic. These jobs are resource intensive,and can slow logging and reporting performance. When trend data retention isenabled, the trend job is run, by default, at 4:30 a.m. Try to avoid starting other jobs attimes that might overlap with the trend job.Log Database administration settingsTRITON - Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.7.xUse the Settings > Reporting > Log Database page to manage:When, where, and how the Log Database creates new standard logging partitions,and which partitions are used in creating reports (Configuring database partitionoptions, page 421)When and how maintenance jobs are run (see Configuring Log Databasemaintenance options, page 424)Whether log records include the full URL, including both the domain and the fullpath to the page or item (see Configuring how URLs are logged, page 425)How Internet browse time is calculated (see Configuring Internet browse timeoptions, page 426)Whether and how long trend data should be stored (see Configuring trend dataretention, page 428).The name of the active Log Database instance is displayed at the top of the page.420 Websense Web Security Solutions