Athena NGFW (Next-Generation Firewall)

Athena NGFW (previously known as Network Secure) provides comprehensive protection for every network perimeter, ensuring the safety of your valuable assets, data, and users from emerging threats.
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Top Users by Traffic

{{ $t('productDocDetail.updateTime') }}: 2025-12-25

Top Users by Traffic ranks the users who have the authentication for accessing the Internet by counting their traffic and displaying the bandwidth usage of online users. The Top Users by Traffic page is as shown below.

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5.3.2.1.1.1Case of Viewing Top Users by Traffic

An administrator needs to view which applications the user has accessed during office hours on an enterprise's network.

Step 1.Click Filter. The administrator can specify the filter conditions for user traffic ranking. See the figure below.

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Link: Select the specific link to view.

App Category: Specify the application service to view.

Objects: Set a specific username or IP.

Step 2.Check the search results, as shown in the following figure.

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Perform ranking based on the bidirectional throughput of users and display information on the following items: Username (displayed name), Group, Throughput Out/In, Bidirectional, Lock, Obtain, and Traffic Details. Click Lock to block Internet access for a user. In the Obtain column, click Obtain to find out the computer name of the user. In the Traffic Details column, click the specific application to enter the following page, which shows the application traffic usage of the user.

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Step 3.(Optional) Enable Lockout Duration to lock a user immediately so that the user cannot access the Internet within the specified duration. Select a user listed on the Top Users by Traffic page, click Lock user in the Lock column, and set the Lockout Duration (mins), as shown in the following figure.

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Step 4.(Optional) Unlock Internet access for users. To immediately lift the restrictions on users being locked to allow them to access the Internet, click Locked Users and go to the Authentication Status page, as shown in the following figure.

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Find the locked user displayed on this page, select the user, and click Unlock.