Source Users and Source Users Reported as "None" By FW

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Source Users and Source Users Reported as "None" By FW

L1 Bithead

Hello,

I'm on version 8.1.2,  in ACC tab I do have a User Activity "widget" or pane that shows Source User, Destination User, Bytes, Sessions, Threats, Content, URLs and Apps. Always the Source User, presents "None" for Source User and also I see "None" for the Destination User with the most number bytes  sent (or could be received). I do have valid user names (such as jdoe) for Destination User but:

1) Why do I see Source User reported as None (and not a valid user name)?

2) Why the the first (the entit with thight transfered bytes) Destination Users is alwasy reported as None?

 

Thanks for taking a shot at answering these questions (in advance).

 

 

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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

@NetOverLord,

The reason your seeing 'None' is because the firewall doesn't having a mapping for the source/destination address. One would expect that the majority of traffic in your average network would be None, as the destination address wouldn't have a user mapping.

The same holds true for the the source-user mapping. If you allow traffic in from the outside users, say if hosting a web server, you wouldn't have source-user information (you could but only in a relatively limited situation). Guest traffic is also a huge source  of source-user 'None' traffic if you have that on your network, or Windows updates running in the evenings once the user-id mapping has aged-out. 

 

There's a tone of reasons why this would be the case, and these are only a few examples. Really it would be up to you to analyze your logs files and see what exactly is being logged and where the traffic is coming from. 

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