Blocked Traffic

Based on the group selection from the Blocked Traffic drop-down list, the Blocked Traffic section of the Application > Visibility > Blocked Traffic dashboard allows you to view the following information:

Blocked devices of the selected group as CSV Comma-Separated Values. A file format that stores tabular data in the plain text format separated by commas. file.
The number of user sessions that are blocked.

The blocked traffic details are shown only for the APs on which Application Visibility or DPI Deep Packet Inspection. DPI is an advanced method of network packet filtering that is used for inspecting data packets exchanged between the devices and systems over a network. DPI functions at the Application layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and enables users to identify, categorize, track, reroute, or stop packets passing through a network. ACLs Access Control List. ACL is a common way of restricting certain types of traffic on a physical port. are enabled. For more information, see Configuring ACLs for Deep Packet Inspection and Configuring ACLs on IAPs for Website Content Classification .
The Blocked Traffic tab is only displayed in Global level.

Downloading Blocked Session Details

To download blocked session details in the CSV format, complete the following steps:

In the Aruba Central app, set the filter to one of the options under Groups.
For all devices, set the filter to Global. The dashboard context for the selected filter is displayed.
Under Manage, click Applications.
The Visibility dashboard is displayed.
Click Blocked Traffic tab.
To download the blocked sessions report, select the device group from the Select Group drop-down.
Click Download CSV.
Aruba Central generates the CSV report with data from the last 7 days.
Figure 1 Blocked Traffic Dashboard view

The .csv file shows up to 50000 blocked sessions for a single Instant AP cluster.