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Using the SDP Users Dashboard

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This article discusses how to use the SDP Dashboard to analyze how SDP users are connecting to the Cato Cloud across your account.

Overview of the SDP Users Dashboard

The SDP Users Dashboard lets you view and analyze data for remote access behavior of SDP users. The widgets in the dashboard let you drill down and filter the data to analyze remote access data for the entire account. In addition, you can filter the data to drill-down and show usage for specific SDP users.

When you manually create a filter or add an item to the update filter, the data and analytics on the SDP Users Dashboard is automatically updated.

Use Cases for the SDP Users Dashboard

These are some examples of how you can use the SDP Dashboard to monitor remote access:

Monitoring Usage for SDP Licenses

The company ABC is planning to add 400 new employees by the end of Q3. You can use the SDP User Licenses widget to check how many licenses are currently available, and determine if the company needs to purchase additional licenses for the account.

Identifying Unsupported Client Versions

The company ABC is planning to implement a new access feature which is only supported for Windows and macOS Clients version 5.0 and higher. You can use the Windows Client Version and macOS Client Version widget to filter for the versions that are lower than version 5.0 and don't support this feature. Then you can contact these SDP users and tell them to upgrade to the newest Client version.

Getting Started with the SDP Users Dashboard

The following table explains the widgets in the SDP Users Dashboard.

SDP_User_Dashboard.png

Name

Description

Active SDP Users

Total number of SDP users actively connected to the Cato Cloud.

This value isn't impacted when you change the time range or a filter.

SDP Users Connected

Unique SDP users connected to the Cato Cloud over the past 7 days.

This value isn't impacted when you change the time range or a filter.

SDP User Licenses

The percentage and number of SDP user licenses used in your account (see above Monitoring Usage for SDP Licenses).

This value isn't impacted when you change the time range or a filter.

SDP Users Connected per Day

Unique SDP users connected to the Cato Cloud per day during the time range and filter. The local time zone of each user is converted to the time for the account.

SDP Users per Country

Users connected to the Cato Cloud per country during the time range and filter.

Note: If a SDP user connects to the Cato Cloud from two countries they are counted twice.

SDP Users per PoP

SDP users connected to the Cato Cloud per PoP during the time range and filter.

Note: If a SDP user connects to multiple PoPs, they are counted as a separate user for each PoP.

OS Distribution

SDP Clients per OS that connected to the Cato Cloud during the time range and filter.

Use the drop-down menu to filter the widget for a specific OS.

Client Versions (by operating system)

Each widget shows the number of SDP users that connected to the Cato Cloud using that OS Client version during the time range and filter.

The dashboard has separate widgets for each Client OS used in your account, and only shows widgets for the Clients that have connected. For example, if only Windows and macOS devices are used for remote access, then only the Windows Client Versions and macOS Client Versions widgets are displayed.

SDP Users

Usernames for the SDP users that connected to the Cato Cloud during the time range and filter (see above Identifying Unsupported Client Versions).

Filtering the SDP Users Dashboard

You can choose to filter the data in the SDP User Dashboard by automatically updating the filter with the selected item, or manually configuring the filter.

Automatically Filtering or Excluding an Item

As you hover over an item or field where a filter option is available, the menu icon (TD_Filter.png ) appears. Click the icon and select Add to Filter or Exclude from Filter.

The SDP Dashboard now displays data based on your selection. For example, in the OS Distribution widget, if you add macOS to the filter, the dashboard only displays analytics and data from SDP users that connected to the Cato Cloud from a macOS machine.

To continue to add or exclude items to the filter, click the menu icon (TD_Filter.png) again to update the filter and drill-down further.

Manually Configuring the Filter

You can manually configure the filter for greater granularity to analyze SDP users. After you configure the filter, it is added to the filter bar and the dashboard is automatically updated to show the analytics and data to match the new filter.

To create a filter:

  1. In the filter bar, click the plus button (add.png).

  2. Start typing or select the Field(s) (for example: Destination Country).

  3. Select the Operator, which determines the relationship between the Field and the Value you are searching for.

  4. Select the Value.

  5. Click Add Filter.

    The filter is added to the filter bar and the dashboard is updated to show results based on the filter.

Clearing the Filter

You can remove each item in the filter separately, or clear the entire filter.

To clear the filters:

  1. To clear a single filter, click remove.png next to the filter.

  2. To clear all the filters, click X at the right end of the filter bar.

Viewing Events from the SDP User Dashboard

To further analyze SDP users connections to the Cato Cloud, you can view the events for items within a widget. For example, you can view the events for all SDP users connecting to the Cato Cloud on a macOS machine.

To view event from the SDP User Dashboard:

  1. Click the menu icon (TD_Filter.png ) next to the item you are viewing the events of.

  2. Click View Events.

    The Events screen is displayed with a pre-defined filter of item and time frame from the SDP User Dashboard.

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