More Network dashboards

Web Center

Use the Web Center dashboard to profile web traffic events in your deployment. This dashboard reports on web traffic gathered by Splunk from proxy servers. It is useful for troubleshooting potential issues such as excessive bandwidth usage or proxies that are no longer serving content for proxy clients. The Web Center can also be used to profile the type of content that clients are requesting and how much bandwidth is being used by each client.

Use the filtering options at the top of the screen to limit which items are shown. Configure new data inputs through Splunk Settings or search for particular traffic events directly through Incident Review.

Filter by	Description	Action
Business Unit	A group or department classification for the identity.	Text field. Empty by default. Wildcard strings with an asterisk (*)
Category	Filter based on the categories to which the host belongs. For more information, see "Dashboard Filters" in the Installation and Configuration manual	Drop-down: select to filter by
Time Range	Select the time range to represent.	Drop-down: select to filter by

Dashboard Panels

Panel	Description
Key Indicators	Displays the metrics relevant to the dashboard sources over the past 24 hours. Key indicators represent summary information and appear at the top of the dashboard. See "Key indicators" in this manual.
Events Over Time by Method	Shows the total number of proxy events over time, aggregated by Method: the HTTP method requested by the client (POST, GET, CONNECT, etc.)
Events Over Time by Status	Shows the total number of proxy events, aggregated by Status: the HTTP status of the response
Top Sources	Sources associated with the highest volume of network traffic. This is useful for identifying sources that are using an excessive amount of network traffic (for example, hosts doing file-sharing), or frequently-requested destinations generating large amounts of network traffic (for example, YouTube or Pandora).
Top Destinations	Destinations associated with the highest volume of network traffic. This is useful for identifying sources that are using an excessive amount of network traffic (for example, hosts doing file-sharing), or frequently-requested destinations generating large amounts of network traffic (for example, YouTube or Pandora).

Troubleshooting

For information about troubleshooting, see "Troubleshooting Network dashboards" in this topic.

Web Search

The Web Search dashboard assists in searching for web events that are of interest based upon the criteria defined by the search filters. The dashboard is used in ad-hoc searching of web data, but is also the primary destination for drilldown searches used in the "'Web Search dashboard panels.

The Web Search dashboard displays no results by default unless it was opened in response to a drilldown action, or the user updates a filter, selects a time range, and chooses Submit.

Filter by	Description	Action
HTTP Method	Filter based upon HTTP Method.	Text field. Empty by default. Wildcard strings with an asterisk (*)
HTTP Status	Filter based upon HTTP Status code.	Text field. Empty by default. Wildcard strings with an asterisk (*)
Source	Filter based upon source IP or name.	Text field. Empty by default. Wildcard strings with an asterisk (*)
Destination	Filter based upon destination IP or name.	Text field. Empty by default. Wildcard strings with an asterisk (*)
URL	Filter based upon URL details.	Text field. Empty by default. Wildcard strings with an asterisk (*)
Time Range	Select the time range to represent.	Drop-down: select to filter by

Network Changes

Use the Network Changes dashboard to track configuration changes to firewalls and other network devices in your environment. This dashboard helps to troubleshoot device problems; frequently, when firewalls or other devices go down, this is due to a recent configuration change on the device(s).

Filter by	Description	Action
Business Unit	A group or department classification for the identity.	Text field. Empty by default. Wildcard strings with an asterisk (*)
Category	Filter based on the categories to which the host belongs. For more information, see "Dashboard Filters" in the Installation and Configuration manual	Drop-down: select to filter by
Time Range	Select the time range to represent.	Drop-down: select to filter by

Dashboard Panels

Panel	Description
Network Changes by Action	Shows all changes to the devices by the type of change; that is, whether a device was added, deleted, modified, or changed. The drilldown redirects the page to the "New Search" dashboard and searches on the selected action and time range.
Network Changes by Device	Shows all devices that have been changed as well as the number of the changes, sorted by the devices with the highest number of changes. The drilldown redirects the page to the "New Search" dashboard and searches on the selected device and time range.
Recent Network Changes	Shows a table of the most recent changes to network devices in the last day.

Troubleshooting Network Dashboards

1. This dashboard references data from various data models. Without the applicable data, the dashboards will remain empty.

2. Use the Open in Search link available in the lower left corner of a dashboard view to perform a direct search against the data model. The New Search dashboard also exposes the search commands and objects used to populate the view.

3. Determine if any data required for a dashboard is available in the data model.

a. Determine the data model objects used by a dashboard:

Dashboard Name	Panel Title	Data Model	Data Model Object
Web Center	Events Over Time By Method	Web	Web.http_method
	Events Over Time By Status		Web.status
	Top Sources		Web.dest, .src
	Top Destinations		Web.dest, .src
Web Search			Web.http_method, .status, .src, .dest, .url
Network Changes	Network Changes By Action	Change Analysis	All_Changes.Network_Changes, .action
	Network Changes By Device		All_Changes.Network_Changes, .dvc

b. Use the data model and data model object to search for events in the data model:

Action	Search	Expected Result
Verify the data is normalized to the Common Information Model	| datamodel data_model_name root_object_name search | table _time, sourcetype, root_object_name.* Example: | datamodel Network_Traffic All_Traffic search | dedup sourcetype | table _time, sourcetype, All_Traffic.*	Returns a list of sourcetypes and the data model objects and fields populated by that sourcetype.

4. Validate the data model is being accelerated.

In the Splunk App for Enterprise Security, browse to Audit > Data Model Audit. Review the Acceleration Details panel for information about the data model acceleration status.

Note: For more information about data model acceleration and the Enterprise Security App, see "Data models in the Enterprise Security app" in the Installation and Configuration Manual.