Recovering from a Failure of the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway

bottom right corner, you can view process and network activity levels; mouse over the two graphs to view numeric data.

To open the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway Administration Desktop

1Open a Web browser and type the IP address or FQDN of the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. The accepted formats are https://IPaddress or https://FQDN.

2In the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway Administration Portal, click Downloads.

3Under Administration, click Launch Firebox SSL VPN Gateway Administration Desktop.

The monitoring applications are as follows.

Firebox SSL Real-time Monitor

Shows the open client connections. To view details about a connection, click the arrow for the user name.

From the monitor, you can temporarily close a connection by connection type (TCP and so on), disable a user (the user cannot connect until you enable the user), and enable a user again. For more information, see “Managing Client Connections” on page 133.

Ethereal Network Analyzer

Enables you to interactively browse packet data from a live network or from a previously saved capture file. For more information, refer to the Help that is available from the Ethereal Network Analyzer window.

xNetTools

Multi-threaded network tool that includes a service scanner, port scanner, ping utility, ping scan, name scan, whois query, and finger query. This is located on the Tools menu.

Traceroute

Combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping commands in one network diagnostic tool. As Traceroute starts, it investigates the network connection between the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway and the destination host that you specify. After it determines the address of each network hop between the devices, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO request to each one to determine the quality of the link to each device. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each device.

fnetload

Provides real-time network interface statistics. It checks the /proc/net/dev every second and builds a graphical representation of its values.

System Monitor

Shows information about CPU usage and memory/swap usage. For more information, refer to the Help available from the System Monitor window.

Recovering from a Failure of the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway

In the event of a total system failure, you must do four procedures to recover:

•reinstall the v 4.9 software on your Firebox® SSL Core appliance

•back up your configuration settings

•apply the v 5.0 software update

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SSL VPN specifications

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