Viewing the Web Content Discovery Summary

The Web Content Discovery Summary dashboard provides insightful reports and tallies of web categories detected on your network.

• The dashboard displays total categories, devices, and high-risk categories with percentage changes.
• Each card allows users to access specific pages for more detailed information.
• Top 3 High Risk Content Categories report the top web categories associated with a higher risk of threat.
• Users can refresh data and select time periods for displayed records using the Refresh and Show options.
• The page also provides access to background tasks, global search, recent searches, high-risk category details, popular categories, and devices accessing high-risk destinations.
  
  

To access the Web Content Discovery Summary page, do the following:

1. Log in to the Infoblox Portal.
2. In the Infoblox Portal, click Monitor > Reports > Web Content Discovery.

Image: A representative screenshot of the web content discovery summary dashboard, displaying various analytics and data visualizations related to web content categories, requests, and devices accessing high-risk destinations. The dashboard's design is clean, with a dark background and sections clearly demarcated by white and green colors. Various elements are highlighted and labeled with letters A to I, for explanatory purposes and to direct attention to specific features.

The following are the main features of the summary page:

The dashboard displays three cards: Total Categories, Total Devices, and High Risk Categories. Each card displays the number of detections on your network. In addition, the High Risk Category card displays the percentage increase or decrease in total detections during the past seven days. An upward-pointing green or red arrow indicates an increase, and a downward-pointing green or red arrow indicates a decrease.

Total Categories: This card displays the total number of web content categories detected on your network. To open the Categories page, click the Total Categories link. For information on threat categories, see Creating Category Filters. To view the Web Content Categories page, click here.  

Total Devices: This card displays the total number of devices detected on your network. To open the Devices page, click the Total Devices link. For information on network devices, see Viewing Endpoint Devices. To view the Web Content Devices page, click here.  

High Risk Categories: This card displays the total number of threat categories detected on your network. Click the Total Categories link to be taken to the Categories page. For information on threat categories, see Creating Category Filters. To view the Web Content Categories page, click here.   

Top 3 High Risk Content Categories: The Threat Classes card reports the top web categories associated with a higher risk of threat according to the number of DNS requests sent from protected devices on your network. The chart reports the data for the past seven days. 

Refresh and Show: 

• Refresh: Click the refresh icon to refresh the data displayed on the page.
• Show: Click Show to select a time period for the displayed data records:
  • 1 hour
  • 24 hours
  • 48 hours
  • 7 days
  • 1 month
  • Custom (limited to 30 days): When Custom is selected, the date/time object indicates the past 30 calendar days. Click the object to open the calendar, and select the start and end dates and times for custom filtering. 
    
    

To view background tasks and recent search information, do the following: 

• Background Tasks: Click the hourglass icon to open the side panel displaying a list of all running background tasks. 

• Global Search: Enter the search criteria or value that you want to search for in the Search text box. 

• Recent Searches: Click the search icon to perform a global search. The Infoblox Portal will display the list of records that match the keyword in the text box. The search panel includes the tools, console messages, and other information on recent searches for the domain. 
  
  

HIGH RISK CATEGORIES shows a list of the top threat categories observed on your network. Click any listed category to view the details about it on the Categories page. Click View All to see the list on the Categories page. 

MOST POPULAR CATEGORIES shows a list of the most popular web content categories observed on your network. Click any listed category to view the details about it on the Categories page. Click View All to see the list on the Categories page.

DEVICES ACCESSING HIGH RISK DESTINATIONS shows a list of devices accessing high-risk destinations observed on your network. Click any listed category to view the details about a specific device on the Devices page. Click View All to display the list on the Devices page.

For more information, see Web Content Discovery.