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11. Monitor System Access and	11
Performance

This chapter describes the system-monitoring features of the UTM. You can be alerted to important events such as a WAN port rollover, 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. This chapter contains the following sections:

•Enable the WAN Traffic Meter

•Configure Logging, Alerts, and Event Notifications

•Monitor Real-Time Traffic, Security, and Statistics

•Monitor Application Use in Real Time

•View Status Screens

•Query and Manage the Logs

•Query and Manage the Quarantine Logs

•View, Schedule, and Generate Reports

•Use Diagnostics Utilities

Note: All log and report functions that are part of the Logs & Reports screen and some of the functions that are part of the Diagnostics screen require that you configure the email notification server—see

Configure the Email Notification Server on page 466.

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 one or more WAN ports, and for the UTM9S and UTM25S, also for the xDSL (SLOT-1 or SLOT-2) and USB ports.

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