Standard Reports
How to generate usage reports and charts by Sputnik-powered device, client, or session, and how to archive old data.
Navigate to the Client Summary report.
Click on "Client Summary" from the "REPORTS" menu.
Client summary report - session time.
The Client Summary report shows recent client sessions across your entire Sputnik-powered network, rolled up by client login ID. If using a username-based authentication system (such as user or PayPal authentication with automatic login disabled), client logins will show the username. If using a device or guest authentication system, client logins will show as MAC addresses.
You can quickly identify how many client sessions occurred on your Sputnik-powered network, the longest, shortest, average and total session time. Data is sorted by logout time, most recent first. NOTE: the Client Summary report only reports completed sessions, and does not include active sessions. If you want to see active session information, you can view the Client Sessions report.
Settings are:
- Granularity: enables you to view data by hour, day (default), week, or month
- Login search: enables you to filter the results by login ID; searches are case sensitive; use the % symbol as a wild-card character
- Display limit: you can view 10 (default), 25, 50 or all records
- Include bandwidth: select if you want to see session bandwidth usage information instead of session time information
Click "Execute" to refresh the display. Click "Next >" or "< Previous" to scroll through results. Click on a "Client Login" to see session history for that client.
Client summary report - bandwidth use.
To view a summary of client bandwidth use, click the checkbox next to "Include Bandwidth?" and then click "Execute".
You can quickly identify how much bandwidth was used across your Sputnik-powered network, and view total bandwidth sent and received summarized by client login ID, by whatever time interval you choose.
Click on a client login ID to view a session history for that client.
Session History report.
The Session History report shows individual active and inactive sessions for the client login ID, listed in reverse chronological order based on logout time. If a session is active, you can terminate it by clicking on its checkbox and clicking "Terminate Selected".
You can drill into other reports by clicking on:
- Authentication System (1): shows technical information about the authentication system used (generally not needed except for debugging)
- Active Sessions on/Router (2): shows usage graphs for that Sputnik-powered device ("router")
- Client (3): shows detailed information and usage graphs for that specific client session
First, we'll click on the active client session record to drill into more detailed information.
Client Session report.
The Client Session report shows detailed session information and bandwidth plots. If a session is active, you can terminate it or reset it by clicking on the "Terminate" or "Reset" buttons, respectively. (Resetting a session updates its policies, and is rarely if ever needed.)
The first bandwidth plot shows traffic in the last hour, or if the session is less than an hour long, all traffic since the session began. The second bandwidth plot can be set to display all traffic (default), the last hour, 30 minutes, 15 minutes, or 5 minutes. Select the appropriate time interval from the "Zoom" pop-up menu and click "Submit" to refresh the display.
You can drill into other reports by clicking on:
- Session on Router (1): shows usage graphs for that Sputnik-powered device ("router")
- Authenticated Client Login (2): returns to the Session History report (above)
We'll click on the name of the Sputnik-powered device (1) to get more information about its usage.
Sputnik-powered device bandwidth and session graphs.
You can view average bandwidth and number of sessions for the selected Sputnik-powered device on your network. To change the report interval, click on the "Zoom to" popup menu and choose: all (default), last 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, hour, day, 3 days, week, month, 90 days (shown), or year, then click "Submit" to refresh the display.
Authentication System Overview report.
As noted, clicking on the Authentication System name in the Session History report shows technical information about the authentication system that is generally not used. It is included here for completeness.
Navigate to the Access Summary report.
Click on "Access Summary" under the "REPORTS" menu.
Access Summary report.
The Access Summary report is analogous to the Client Summary report, but instead of rolling up by client login ID, the data is summarized by Sputnik-powered device ("AP/Router").
The Access Summary report shows the number of sessions, longest, shortest, average and total session length on each Sputnik-powered device.
Settings are:
- Granularity: enables you to view data by hour, day (default), week, or month
- Router search: enables you to filter the results by the name of the Sputnik-powered device: searches are case sensitive; use the % symbol as a wild-card character
- Display limit: you can view 10 (default), 25, 50 or all records
Click "Execute" to refresh the display. Click "Next >" or "< Previous" to scroll through results. Click on the name of a Sputnik-powered device to see bandwidth and session graphs for that device (see the prior step titled "Sputnik-powered device bandwidth and session graphs").
Navigate to the Client Sessions report.
Click on "Client Sessions" from the "REPORTS" menu.
Client Sessions report.
The Client Sessions report shows recent individual client sessions across your entire Sputnik-powered network, sorted by login time, most recent first. If using a username-based authentication system (such as user or PayPal authentication with automatic login disabled), client logins will show the username. If using a device or guest authentication system, client logins will show as MAC addresses.
Under "Show Fields" you can toggle the display of:
- Session Detected: time at which the client session was first detected, possibly before authentication
- Logout time: time when the logout occurred
- Logout reason: can be terminated by user, admin, or idle timeout
- Duration: length of the session
- MAC: the client's MAC address
- Usage: bandwidth sent and received
- Type: client operating system (if available)
- Display Name: client username
Additional settings are:
- Session State: can display all, active, completed sessions, or sessions pending authentication
- Display limit: you can view 10 (default), 25, or 50 records
- Router search: enables you to filter the results by the name of the Sputnik-powered device; searches are case sensitive; use the % symbol as a wild-card character
- Login search: enables you to filter the results by the client's login ID; searches are case sensitive; use the % symbol as a wild-card character
Click "Search for Sessions" to refresh the display.
If a session is active, you can terminate it by clicking on its checkbox and clicking "Terminate Selected".
Click "Next >" or "< Previous" to scroll through results.
Finally, you can view other reports, as follows:
- Click on a "Router" name (1) to see bandwidth and session graphs for that Sputnik-powered device (see the prior step titled "Sputnik-powered device bandwidth and session graphs")
- Click on a "Client" (2) or "Display Name" (3) field to see detailed session information (see the prior step titled "Client Session report")
Navigate to Session Archive.
Click "Session Archive" from the "REPORTS" menu.
Session Archive.
The Session Archive keeps records of past client sessions as CSV (comma separated values). These files can be opened in a spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft Excel. To download a session archive for a specific date, click on the date.
Session archive file.
A CSV file containing that day's session data will download to your computer.
Review the session archive data.
Open the session archive file in a spreadsheet to review the data.
Modifying the session archive period.
You can change the session archive period, which is the amount of time SputnikNet keeps session data before it is archived (archive files are kept as long as the Account is active).
To do this, click on "Control Center" from the "CONFIG" menu, and scroll down the page to "Session Archive Period". Options range from "do not archive session data" to one to twelve months in one-month increments.
NOTE: to improve SputnikNet performance, we recommend a shorter archive time if you have a very active network.