Configuring Aliases

Aliases enable you to provide an alternative name for a Summary item or group of Summary items.

For example: By applying the 'Subnets' alias to your Source IP Address Summary, you can group your Source IP Addresses according to your organization's subnets. Alternatively you can apply the 'Websites' alias to view the resolved Site names instead of IP addresses.

You can quickly alias any Summary item using the Quick Alias function in the Summaries dock.

To use the Quick Alias function

  • Click the Summaries tab at the top of the screen . This takes you to the Summaries dock.

  • into a and right-click on a Summary item you want to alias. This launches the Quick Alias dialog.

  • Select Add to alias from the pop-up menu.

  • Select the alias you want to add the Summary item to from the 'In Alias' drop down list.

  • Enter the desired display name for the Summary item in the 'As' edit box.

  • Click OK

The Summary item will now be displayed as the name you entered in step 5 above. If this is not the case, ensure you have applied the alias by selecting the appropriate alias in the Aliases task pad.

You can also configure your aliases manually using the Aliases dock.

There are two types of aliases:

String Aliases: String Aliases can convert any Summary item into a meaningful display name as long as the summary item exactly matches an item in an alias group.

IP or Subnet Aliases: IP or Subnet Aliases can only be applied to Summary items that are IP addresses. An IP or Subnet alias can contain subnet expressions as alias items, such as 192.168.0.0\24. Using binary arithmetic, an IP or Subnet alias evaluates whether an IP address belongs to any of its configured subnets and aliases the IP addresses appropriately

To add a String alias:

  • Click the Aliases tab at the top of the screen. This takes you to the Aliases dock.

  • Click the New Alias link in the Aliases task pad.

  • Enter a name and a description for the alias.

  • Select whether you want the alias to apply to another alias or to a summary:

  • If you want to group all Summary items that do not match any of your alias groups into a single name, check the 'Group unresolved into a single name' checkbox and enter the name you would like to use, such as 'Miscellaneous' or 'Unknown'.

  • If you want to use Wildcard characters when adding items to the alias, such as * and ?, check the 'Use wildcard matching' check box.

See Using Wildcards

  • Click OK .

To add a Subnet or IP alias:

  • Click the Aliases tab at the top of the screen. This takes you to the Aliases dock.

  • Click the New
    subnet Alias link in the Aliases task pad.

  • Enter a name and a description for the alias.

  • Select the schema that contains the summaries you want to apply the alias to from the drop down list. Select the summaries you want to apply the alias to and click the left arrow button to move them to the list on the right.

  • If you would like to group all Summary items that do not match any of your alias groups into a single name, check the 'Group unresolved into a single name' checkbox and enter the name you would like to use, such as 'External' or 'Unknown'.

  • Click OK .

Once an alias has been added, you need to groups and add items to the alias. See Adding alias groups and items.