Log Analyzer Main

Included with every Praetor is the Praetor Log Analyzer (PLA), a Microsoft Access database application.

The PLA application gives an administrator the means to create useful and timely reports to summarize and provide statistics on their email traffic flowing through Praetor.

For further information, see the Praetor online documentation or contact CMS Sales.

The main switchboard of the PLA gives the email administrator easy access to all other switchboard screens -- Events, Reports, Configuration

A feature available on all PLA Switchboards is the summary of message traffic displayed on the bottom of the screen.  Press the "Today's Traffic Summary" button to update the display.

An "Event" is any action taken by Praetor on inbound or outbound messages and logged into the Praetor messaging database.  Events include "ACCEPTING", "FORWARDING" and QUARANTINING" messages.

	Event	Full listing of all log entries in tabular form sorted chronologically.
	Event Viewer	Detail view of each log entry, presented one at a time in chronological order.
	Event Count	Summary by count, organized by the various actions: accepting, archiving, rejecting, quarantine, etc.
	Rules Summary	Summary, by count of message actions, organized by the rules that caught them.

In "Reports" the administrator can view message details based on many different criteria, such as domain names, recipient addresses and Praetor rules.

	Domain Summary	Shows the source or destination domains for messages processed by Praetor.
	Event Summary	Shows the message count for all the different event results for local or all domains.
	Log Entries by Specific Criteria	Create a custom report based upon selected criteria: date range, event type, sender, etc.
	Recipient Summary	Detailed report of recipient addresses found in messages processed by Praetor.
	Rule Summary	Message count for all the different active rules in Praetor.
	Sender Summary	Shows the Internet (for inbound) or local (for outbound) sender address in messages processed by Praetor.

The "Special Reports" area lets an administrator examine message traffic by specific IP address and traffic flow.  This creates a very detailed picture of message traffic in and out of a site.

	IP Report Selector	Shows the source of spammers using RNDR attacks to make your mail server an indirect relay Shows mail hosts filtered by the SMTP protocol level DNSBL test (if enabled). Shows mail hosts filtered by the message level DNSBL test (if protocol level is not enabled). Shows mail hosts whose messages were caught by Praetor's rules.
	Traffic Summary	Shows the overall statistics for messages organized by action (accepted, rejected, quarantined, etc.).  At a glance see how much spam is received and how much is being caught by DNSBL or the Bayesian filter.

The "Configuration" screens define items specific to your corporation or organization such as the SQL Server data source and local domain names.

	Configure Data Source	Sets the data source to be the SQL database maintained by the MSDE or SQL Server.
	Configure Local Domains	Praetor can be configured to accept messages for multiple local domains so this analyzer must know the various local domains.