Quick Reference Guide

ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 FVS338 Reference Manual
VPN Firewall and Network Management 6-23
v1.0, January 2010
Monitoring System Performance
You can be alerted to important events such as WAN port rollover, WAN traffic limits reached,
login failures, and attacks. You can also view status information about the VPN firewall, WAN
ports, LAN ports, and VPN tunnels. This section includes the following subsections:
• “Activating Notification of Events and Alerts” on this page.
• “Viewing the Logs” on page 6-26
• “Enabling the Traffic Meter” on page 6-27
• “Viewing the Router Configuration and System Status” on page 6-30
• “Monitoring VPN Firewall Statistics” on page 6-32
• “Monitoring WAN Ports Status” on page 6-33
• “Monitoring Attached Devices” on page 6-34
• “Monitoring VPN Tunnel Connection Status” on page 6-35
• “Viewing the VPN Logs” on page 6-36
• “Viewing the DHCP Log” on page 6-37
• “Viewing Port Triggering Status” on page 6-37
Activating Notification of Events and Alerts
The firewal logs can be configured to log and then e-mail denial of access, general attack
information, and other information to a specified e-mail address. For example, the VPN firewall
will log security-related events such as: accepted and dropped packets on different segments of
your LAN; denied incoming and outgoing service requests; hacker probes and Login attempts; and
other general information based on the settings that you enter on the Firewall Logs & E-mail
screen. In addition, if you have set up content filtering on the Block Sites screen (see “Blocking
Internet Sites (Content Filtering)” on page 4-26), a log will be generated when someone on your
network tries to access a blocked site.
You must have e-mail notification enabled to receive the logs in an e-mail message. If you do not
have e-mail notification enabled, you can view the logs on the Logs screen (see Figure 6-10 on
page 6-24). Selecting all events will increase the size of the log, so it is good practice to select only
those events which are required.
To configure logging and notifications:
1. Select Monitoring from the main menu and then Firewall Logs & E-mail from the submenu.
The Firewall Logs & E-mail screen will display (see Figure 6-10 on page 6-24).