Report on Browser Traffic Only

[Iain Cozens]

Good Morning,

We have been using NxFilter for a while now to successfully log, block and report on user's activity - using vxlogon.

Because this is a DNS filter, the reports show a slew of information for each user, most of which is background traffic - is there a way to filter the reporting to only show results which have been accessed directly from a browser? i.e. websites the users have actively opened?

Kind regards,
Iain.

[support200]

Not possible. For NxFilter, those are all DNS traffic. If you don't need to filter those background traffics, you can enable 'Filter A Query Only' on 'Config > Setup > Misc'. We introduced this option with v4.5.3.2. Your browsers send A and AAAA queries only normally. You also can expect smaller traffic DB with the option.

[Iain Cozens]

Ah perfect, yes restricting to A/AAAA queries only would fit right for our requirements - we haven't upgraded for a while and are still on v4.5.2.8 so didn't see that option.
Thanks for the info, we shall get upgraded as soon as possible and enable that option. Cheers!