User Preferences
The Administration > User Preferences page controls the display conventions that apply generally throughout the user interface for a specific user. The page includes four setting sections: Data, Autocomplete, Date and Time Formatting, and Miscellaneous. Settings take effect when you click Apply Preferences at the bottom of the page.
Data
Host/Device Name Resolution – chooses one, both, or neither of the following options. Based on your knowledge of your environment (for example, host names changing as a result of a recent equipment redeployment, your DHCP server not yet integrated with the NetProfiler , etc.), you can choose the options that work the best for your reporting needs.
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Resolve host and device names – This option is available only if DNS, DHCP or SNMP name resolution has been enabled on the Administration > General Settings page.
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Suppress DHCP/DNS/SNMP search domains () from resolved host and device names – This suppresses the display of the domain names for hosts in the search domain. If no search domain is specified in the Name Resolution section of the Administration > General Settings page, then all resolved hosts are displayed by their fully qualified names.
Host group – which type of host group is to be displayed in event reports and traffic reports when the reports are set to display host group membership.
Protocol/Port Sort Options – which sorting order for protocols and ports to use on reports.
Traffic Data Units – units in which statistics are displayed wherever traffic volume or throughput is displayed.
Percentage Displays on Reports – when to display percent-of-total numbers on reports.
Time Aggregation Numerical Rule – select how data is aggregated for display on time series charts. more
Autocomplete
Enable or disable automatic completion of entries in input fields by category.
The names of items you might need to enter in a field are stored in a cache. The cache is refreshed periodically. However, you can click Clear to clear and rebuild the autocomplete cache immediately. This can be useful when devices, interfaces, applications, etc. are added or deleted and you want the autocomplete feature to have the current names immediately.
Date and Time Formatting
Date Style – convention for displaying days, months, and years.
Time Style – 12-hour or 24-hour time display.
Time Zone – the default time zone for your user account. This time zone is used for all time displays and time inputs except on pages:
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where it is overridden. You can specify a different time zone when scheduling a report, specifying a user-defined policy, or creating a new user account.
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where NetProfiler system time is used. NetProfiler system time is used on the Administration > Security Profiles page and the Administration > Flow Log page.
You can select a time zone using the Continent/City convention, the Country/Zone convention, or the time zone abbreviation. However, to ensure that the selected time zone is automatically adjusted for summer and winter time changes, it is preferable to select it using the Continent/City convention rather than the Country/Zone convention or its abbreviation.
You can display the time zone either by its name or as an offset from UTC.
Note that this time zone selection applies to only your user account. The NetProfiler also has its own system time zone setting. more
Miscellaneous
Non-interactive Connection Graph – selects whether connection graphs and service maps allow users to rearrange the layout by dragging and dropping elements of the display.
Color Palette – selects an alternate color scheme for graphs.
Country Flags – indicates whether the flag for the country in which a host server resides is displayed with the host server name in reports.
Refresh Rate – rate at which to refresh the data on the web user interface pages. The default is once per minute, which is the fastest rate.
Print/Email – maximum number of rows for printed and emailed tables.
Packet Export from Sensor – maximum size of the file used to export tcpdump-style data for a packet analysis report from the Sensor.
Search Settings
Timeout after: The amount of time after which the search process should timeout and return all the results found thus far.
Limit configuration results to: The maximum number of configuration results to display.
Search data: When enabled, search will include a search of the flow data store for hosts. Otherwise, data search is not done.
Search data during last: Restricts the data search to this time period.
Limit data results to: Specifies the maximum number of results displayed for a data search.
Time Aggregation Numerical Rule