Firebox Monitors

Setting Firebox Monitors view properties

You can configure Firebox Monitors to display traffic at different speeds, intervals, and amplitude. From Firebox Monitors:

1Select View => Properties.

2Modify display properties according to your preferences.

Bandwidth Meter

The Bandwidth Meter tab displays real-time bandwidth usage for one Firebox interface at a time.

ServiceWatch

The ServiceWatch tab graphs the number of connections by service, providing a service-centric view of network activity. The y axis shows the number of connections and the x axis shows time. Firebox Monitors differentiates by color each service being graphed.

Adding services to ServiceWatch

By default, ServiceWatch graphs SMTP, FTP, and HTTP, but you can track other services, too. From Firebox Monitors:

1Select View => Properties. Click the ServiceWatch tab.

2 Click Add.

3Enter the service name and port number.

For a list of well-known service port numbers, see the Reference Guide.

4Pick the line color to represent the service on the graph.

5Click OK to close the Add Service dialog box. Click OK to close the View

Properties dialog box.

ServiceWatch adds the new service to the display and draws a new line in the color specified.

StatusReport

The StatusReport tab on the Firebox Monitors display provides a number of statistics on Firebox activity.

Firebox uptime and version information

The time range on the statistics, the Firebox uptime, and the WatchGuard Firebox System software version.

Statistics from Wed Jan 11 14:54:24 2000 to Wed Jan 11 14:57:27 2000

Up since Tue Dec 30 15:26:48 1999 (23:30) Last network change Tue Nov 30 15:26:48 1999

WatchGuard, Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

Driver version: 4.00.B99

Daemon version: 4.00.B99

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WatchGuard Technologies FireboxTM System 4.6 manual Setting Firebox Monitors view properties, Bandwidth Meter, ServiceWatch