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Content Filtering Support Overview
▀ Category-based Content Filtering Support
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Report Engine (RE)
The Report Generator utility in CF-CDP is a script-based tool responsible for report generation and CF-EDR parsing. A
script-based utility generates reports in XML format for content filtering subscribers and the Report Engine server takes
care of EDR parsing. The script can be used with cron job for periodic report generation in background. Reports can
also be generated from the WEM GUI.
script-based utility generates reports in XML format for content filtering subscribers and the Report Engine server takes
care of EDR parsing. The script can be used with cron job for periodic report generation in background. Reports can
also be generated from the WEM GUI.
CF-EDR files are pushed from L-ESS to CF-CDP server at a configured time interval and stored in specified data
directory on the CF-CDP server.
directory on the CF-CDP server.
The Report Engine generates the following types of reports in XML format on the basis of user parameters, event
records, and criteria.
records, and criteria.
Overall Summary Report: This is a short summary report of all the activities done between a duration of time.
This report includes following schema for subscriber activity summary report:
Start date and time of activity
End date and time of activity
Action-wise distribution of requested/accessed URL with hit count
Distribution-wise distribution of requested/accessed URL with hit count
Subscriber Detailed Report: This is a detailed report in which operators get detailed information about
subscriber activities on a Content Filtering system. This report includes all information about a subscriber‘s
request with following schema for each URL requested:
request with following schema for each URL requested:
Start date and time of activity
End date and time of activity
Duration of report
Network Area Identifier (NAI) of subscriber
Flow start date and time
Flow end date and time
Duration of flow
CF-System name
Subscriber ID
URL address tried to access
Applicable policy for subscriber and URL
Category assigned to requested URL
Action taken on URL request
Total bytes/packets uplinked
Total bytes/packets downlinked
URL Summary Report: This is a high-level report which provides the list of URLs and the number of times a
URL was visited with the following additional schema along with the schema of Summary Report:
Name of URL requested/visited
Action and category-wise distribution of the number of times subscriber visited the URL