Reports Overview – Cerberus Support

Administrators can use the statistics and reporting feature to generate detailed reports of client activity based on user names, dates ranges, and file access.

Cerberus FTP Server Report Manager

Generating a Report

Administrators can use the statistics and reporting features in Cerberus FTP Server Enterprise edition to generate detailed reports of client activity based on usernames, dates ranges, and file access. In addition to client activity, the administrator can also generate native account reports indicating account creation and last login dates.

Reports are displayed in tables in the Report Manager, but each report also has a button to export the report data as a CSV file.

NOTE: Using Report Manager requires that a reporting database has been configured.

User and File Report Settings

An administrator can generate five types of reports:

File Report
Login Report
Audit Report
Account Report
Folder Report

File Report (File Statistics Report)

The File Report displays a list of files upload or downloaded for the time period specified. File access reporting can be filtered by file name, date and time, and username. The file reports contain important information about file transfers, including:

The full local path of the file
The type of file operation performed on the file (upload, download, rename, delete, copy)
The user that accessed the file
The IP address the user accessed the file from
The date and time the access occurred
The protocol used to access the file (FTP, FTPS, SSH SFTP, HTTP, or HTTPS)
The type of encryption used, if any, to perform the file operation

Cerberus FTP Server File Access Report, viewed via the Web Admin Portal, Filtered by Date

The administrator can also use the Include feature to decide what type of file activity to include in the report (downloads, uploads, file renames/moves, public file shares, etc.).

Login Report (Session Statistics Report)

The Login Report displays a list of user log ins for the time period specified. File access reporting can be filtered by host, username and date and time. The login reports contain important information about user sessions, including:

The username
The IP address the user logged in from
The protocol used (FTP, FTPS, SSH SFTP, HTTP, or HTTPS)
The type of encryption used for the session
The Login date and time
The Logout date and time

Cerberus FTP Server Session Statistics Report, viewed via the Web Admin Portal, Filtered by User

The administrator can also use the Include feature to decide what type of file activity to include in the report (downloads, uploads, file renames/moves, public file shares, etc.).

Audit Report

The admin audit report provides a list of server activities undertaken by Cerberus administration users.

Admin Access Report

Account Report

The account status report provides a report on all native Cerberus user accounts as well as Active Directory or LDAP users, if you have integrated Cerberus with AD/LDAP.

The report lists

User
Any Primary Groups the user is a member of (As a member of a Primary Group, the user's settings are overridden with the settings and virtual directory access set in the group)
Any Secondary Groups the user is a member of (As a member of Secondary Group, the user is granted access to the virtual directories assigned to the group in addition to their own, but the user retains their own settings and virtual directory access)
Virtual directories assigned to the user and their permissions
Disabled status (An 'x' will appear in this column for disabled users)
Date when password last changed ('Anonymous' will appear in this column if the user has been set to not require a password)
Date when password expires if applicable (or 'Never')
Date when user was created
Date of last login ('Unknown' means the user has never logged in)

Folder Report

The Folder report provides a report on folders that have been assigned to Cerberus and AD/LDAP users.