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10. Monitor System Access and Performance

This chapter describes the system-monitoring features of the wireless 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. This chapter contains the

following sections:

• Enable the WAN 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 338.

Enable the WAN Traffic Meter

If your ISP charges by traffic volume over a given period of time, or if you want to study traffic

types over a period of time, you can activate the traffic meter for the WAN port.

 To monitor traffic limits on each of the WAN ports:

1. Se

lect Monitoring > Traffic Meter. The Broadband Traffic Meter screen displays.

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.