View A Specific Application In The Flow Monitoring Charts; Change The Date Range Of The Flow Monitoring Charts; View The Flow Monitoring Report - VMware VSHIELD APP 1.0 Admin Manual

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View a Specific Application in the Flow Monitoring Charts

You can select a specific application to view in the charts by clicking the Application drop‐down menu.
To view the data for a specific application in the Flow Monitoring charts
1 In the vSphere Client, go to Inventory > Hosts and Clusters.
2 Select a datacenter or cluster resource from the resource tree.
3 Click the vShield App tab.
4 Click Flow Monitoring.
5 From the Application drop‐down menu, select the application to view.
The Flow Monitoring charts are refreshed to show data corresponding to the selected application.

Change the Date Range of the Flow Monitoring Charts

You can change the date range of the Flow Monitoring charts for an historical view of traffic data.
To change the date range of the Flow Monitoring chart
1 In the vSphere Client, go to Inventory > Hosts and Clusters.
2 Select a datacenter or cluster resource from the resource tree.
3 Click the vShield App tab.
4 Click Flow Monitoring.
The charts are updated to display the most current information for the last seven days. This might take
several seconds.
5 In the Start Date field, type a new date.
This date represents the date furthest in the past on which to start the query.
6 Type a new date in the End Date field.
This represents the most recent date on which to stop the query.
7 Click Update Chart.

View the Flow Monitoring Report

The Flow Monitoring report presents the traffic statistics in tabular format. The report supports drilling down
into traffic statistics based on the following hierarchy:
1 Select the firewall action: Allowed or Blocked.
2 Select an L4 or L2/L3 protocol.
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L4: TCP or UDP
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L2/L3: ICMP, Other‐IPv4, or ARP
3 If an L2/L3 protocol was selected, select an L2/L3 protocol or message type.
4 Select the traffic direction: Incoming, Outgoing, or Intra (between virtual machines).
5 Select the port type: Categorized (standardized ports) or Uncategorized (non‐standardized ports).
6 Select an application protocol or port.
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