10.Monitor System Access and Performance 10

This chapter describes the system-monitoring features of the wireless VPN firewall. You can be alerted to important events such WAN traffic limits reached, login failures, and attacks. You can also view status information about the firewall, WAN ports, LAN ports, active VPN users and tunnels, and more. In addition, the diagnostics utilities are described. The chapter contains the following sections:

Enable the WAN Traffic Meter

Configure Logging, Alerts, and Event Notifications

View Status Screens

Diagnostics Utilities

Note: All log and report functions that are part of the Firewall Logs & E-mail screen and some of the functions that are part of the Diagnostics screen require that you configure the email notification

server—seeConfigure Logging, Alerts, and Event Notifications on

page 349.

Enable the WAN Traffic Meter

If your ISP charges by traffic volume over a given period, or if you want to study traffic types over a period, you can activate the traffic meter for IPv4 traffic on the WAN port.

To configure and monitor traffic limits on the WAN port:

1.Select Monitoring > Traffic Meter. The Broadband Traffic Meter screen displays.

The Internet Traffic Statistics section in the lower part of the screen displays statistics on Internet traffic through the WAN port. If you have not enabled the traffic meter, these statistics are not available.

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