Chapter 10 Monitor

There is a limit on the number of records shown in the report. Please see Table 32 on page 245 for more information. The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 31 Monitor > System Status > Traffic Statistics

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Data Collection

 

 

 

Collect

Select this to have the ZyWALL collect data for the report. If the ZyWALL

Statistics

has already been collecting data, the collection period displays to the

 

right. The progress is not tracked here real-time, but you can click the

 

Refresh button to update it.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyWALL.

 

 

Reset

Click Reset to return the screen to its last-saved settings.

 

 

Statistics

 

 

 

Interface

Select the interface from which to collect information. You can collect

 

information from Ethernet, VLAN, bridge, PPPoE/PPTP, and auxiliary

 

interfaces.

 

 

Traffic Type

Select the type of report to display. Choices are:

 

Host IP Address/User - displays the IP addresses or users with the

 

most traffic and how much traffic has been sent to and from each one.

 

Service/Port - displays the most-used protocols or service ports and

 

the amount of traffic for each one.

 

Web Site Hits - displays the most-visited Web sites and how many

 

times each one has been visited.

 

Each type of report has different information in the report (below).

 

 

Refresh

Click this button to update the report display.

 

 

Flush Data

Click this button to discard all of the screen’s statistics and update the

 

report display.

 

 

 

These fields are available when the Traffic Type is Host IP Address/

 

User.

 

 

#

This field is the rank of each record. The IP addresses and users are

 

sorted by the amount of traffic.

 

 

IP Address/

This field displays the IP address or user in this record. The maximum

User

number of IP addresses or users in this report is indicated in Table 32 on

 

page 245.

 

 

Direction

This field indicates whether the IP address or user is sending or receiving

 

traffic.

 

Ingress- traffic is coming from the IP address or user to the ZyWALL.

 

Egress - traffic is going from the ZyWALL to the IP address or user.

 

 

Amount

This field displays how much traffic was sent or received from the

 

indicated IP address or user. If the Direction is Ingress, a red bar is

 

displayed; if the Direction is Egress, a blue bar is displayed. The unit of

 

measure is bytes, Kbytes, Mbytes or Gbytes, depending on the amount

 

of traffic for the particular IP address or user. The count starts over at

 

zero if the number of bytes passes the byte count limit. See Table 32 on

 

page 245.

 

 

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