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9. Monitor System Access and Performance
This chapter describes the system-monitoring features of the VPN firewall. You can be alerted to
important events such 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. The chapter contains the following
sections:
• Configure and Enable the WAN Traffic Meter
• Configure and Enable the LAN Traffic Meter
• Configure Logging, Alerts, and Event Notifications
• View Status Screens
• Diagnostics Utilities
Note: All log and report functions that are part of the Firewall Logs &
E-mail screen and some of the functions that are part of the
Diagnostics screen require that you configure the email notification
server—see
Configure Logging, Alerts, and Event Notifications on
page 353.
Configure and 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 IPV4 traffic on a WAN port.
To configure and monitor traffic limits on a WAN port:
1. Se
lect Monitoring > Traffic Meter. The WAN Traffic Meter tabs display, with the
WAN1 Traffic Meter screen in view.
The Internet Traffic Statistics section in the lower part of the screen displays statistics on
Interne
t traffic through the WAN port. If you have not enabled the traffic meter, these
statistics are not available.