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ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N

Table 84. Broadband Traffic Meter screen settings (continued)

Setting

Description

When Limit is reached

Block Traffic	Select one of the following radio buttons to specify which action the wireless VPN
	firewall performs when the traffic limit has been reached:
	• Block All Traffic. All incoming and outgoing Internet and email traffic is blocked.
	• Block All Traffic Except E-Mail. All incoming and outgoing Internet traffic is
	blocked, but incoming and outgoing email traffic is still allowed.
Send e-mail alert	An email alert is sent when traffic is blocked. Ensure that emailing of logs is enabled
	on the Firewall Logs & E-mail screen (see Configure Logging, Alerts, and Event
	Notifications on page 349).

3.Click Apply to save your settings.

To display a report of the Internet traffic by type, click the Traffic by Protocol option arrow in the upper right of the Broadband Traffic Meter screen. The Traffic by Protocol pop-up screen displays. The incoming and outgoing volume of traffic for each protocol and the total volume of traffic are displayed. Traffic counters are updated in MBs; the counter starts only when traffic passed is at least 1 MB. In addition, the pop-up screen displays the traffic meter’s start and end dates. If you did not configure the traffic meter, the start date is blank.

Figure 207.

Configure Logging, Alerts, and Event Notifications

You can configure the wireless VPN firewall to log routing events such as dropped and accepted packets, to log system events such as a change of time by an NTP server, secure login attempts, and reboots, and to log other events. You can also schedule logs to be sent to the administrator and enable logs to be sent to a syslog server on the network.

To configure and activate logs:

1.Select Monitoring > Firewall Logs & E-mail. The Firewall Logs & E-mail screen displays:

Monitor System Access and Performance

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