One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions 7.3.1 - Administration Guide

You can turn any search query or statistics into a subchapter to add to your reports. This is an easy and flexible way of creating reports to monitor traffic, track certain parameters, or get alerted about particular events.

To create a search-based report subchapter from search results

1. Navigate to Search and define a valid search query.

2. Click Create report. The Create new subchapter page is displayed, with the Search query field populated with your query.

   Figure 319: Search > Create report - Example subchapter created from search results with Query field populated

   

3. In the Subchapter title field, add a title to your subchapter.

4. In Subchapter type, select the type that fits your query:

   • Sessions list: Displays a list of sessions.

     Set Number of sessions and from Subchapter columns, select the session parameters to be displayed in a table in the report. You can add a maximum of 10 columns to the table.

   • Timeline view: Visualizes the timeline of sessions that meet the criteria of the Search query field, depending on the time range (day/month/week) selected at the Scheduling & Delivery step of the report configuration.

   • Statistics view: Visualizes the statistics data for the option you select in Field, for sessions that meet the criteria of the Search query field.

     Select a presentation option for your report, such as List, Pie chart, or Bar chart. In Field, select the data field to create your statistics on.

5. Select Add to a report, and select from the list of available reports.

   Alternatively, to configure a custom report from scratch and include this subchapter in it, select Include in a new report. For more information, see Configuring custom reports.

This section describes how to create a search-based subchapter from scratch to include the subchapter in a custom report.

To create a search-based report subchapter from scratch

1. If you have multiple SPS appliances organized into a cluster where one of the nodes is the Search Master (or Central Search) node, log in to that node.

2. Navigate to Reporting > Create and Manage Reports > View & edit subchapters > Search-based.

3. Select Create new. The Create new subchapter page is displayed.

   Figure 320: Reporting > View & edit subchapters > Search-based — Create new subchapter

   

4. In Subsection title, add a title to your subchapter.

5. In Search query, enter a valid query.

6. In Subchapter type, select the type that fits your query:

   • Sessions list: Displays a list of sessions.

     Set Number of sessions and from Subchapter columns, select the session parameters to be displayed in a table in the report. You can add a maximum of 10 columns to the table.

   • Timeline view: Visualizes the timeline of sessions that meet the criteria of the Search query field, depending on the time range (day/month/week) selected at the Scheduling & Delivery step of the report configuration.

   • Statistics view: Visualizes the statistics data for the option you select in Field, for sessions that meet the criteria of the Search query field.

     Select a presentation option for your report, such as List, Pie chart, or Bar chart. In Field, select the data field to create your statistics on.

7. Select Save.

8. To save your changes, navigate to Create and Manage reports and select Commit.

9. Add your subchapter to a new report or to an existing report. For more information, see Configuring custom reports.

   To find and add the subchapter you created to a report, navigate to Reporting > Create and Manage Reports > View & edit subchapters > Search-based.

   

Table view, card view

In addition to listing sessions and search results as a table, the new card view highlights the most important details of a session at a glance.

Figure 321: Search interface improvements

Note that in table view now the list of displayed columns is fixed and cannot be modified. However, if you search for specific values of fields that are not displayed, the values of these fields will be visible in card view.

Quick session analytics with the flow view

Display an interactive, visual overview of your search results to quickly visualize their distribution along multiple attributes, such as client and target IP addresses, protocol, or usernames. Helps to identify patterns in user behavior and to drill down fast to the most relevant sessions. For details, see Using the Search interface.

Figure 322: Search — Flow view

Timeline

The Search interface can now display a timeline showing the search results. Also, you can quickly sort and visualize the distribution of the sessions based on their various metadata, for example, username, server address, and so on.

Figure 323: Search — Displaying statistics and timeline

Set a custom or preset date range

Specify a time range to restrict or filter your search criteria by setting boundaries on your searches. Use one of the preset time ranges, or use a custom time range for a more specific search.

Figure 324: Search — Pick a date

Unified search field

Find everything from a single search box, filter search to a specific field, and combine searches in multiple fields using logical operators. You can also combine content search queries arbitrarily with other search queries. Flow view and quick statistics charts can handle content searches as well. For details, see Using search queries.

Figure 325: Search — Search filters

Further functions of the old search page (and where they are located on the new search page)

Some functions of the old search page are located somewhere else on the new page. Here is a list of the important ones.

Download the audit trail of a session: Click details or ... to open the details of the session, then click download trail. For details, see Viewing session details.

Display the timeline: Click the icon. To limit the date range of the search, click Pick a date or Shortcuts. For details, see Specifying time ranges.

Change the time interval of the search: To limit the date range of the search, click Pick a date or Shortcuts. For details, see Specifying time ranges. Alternatively, you can select a period on the timeline: click at the beginning of the interval, keep the button pressed, then move the pointer to the end of the interval. The timeline and the search results will be updated automatically.

Search in the screen content: To search in the content of the audited sessions, use the screen.content field in your search query. For example: screen.content="exit". To search in the contents of a specific session, download the audit trail, open it in the Safeguard Desktop Player application, and use the Search feature of the Safeguard Desktop Player. For details, see Searching in the contents of audit trails.

Search or filter in a specific field: To search in a specific data field, start typing the name of the field into the search field. The possible field names and their description is automatically displayed. For example, to search for a specific username, use the user.name:"my-username" search query. For details, see Viewing session details.

Alternatively, click and set the filters you need from the appropriate columns. For example, to search for a specific username, select it using the drop-down menu of the Username column. For a more generic search, you can enter any text in the Contains text column.

Figure 326: Search — Search filters - Basic view

Save a filter or a search query: SPS does not store filters anymore, but you can bookmark the page.