Monitoring System Performance; Enabling The Traffic Meter - NETGEAR ProSafe FVS336G Reference Manual

This chapter describes the full set of system monitoring features of your ProSafe Dual WAN
Gigabit Firewall with SSL & IPsec VPN. You can be alerted to important events such as WAN port
rollover, WAN traffic limits reached, and login failures and attacks. You can also view status
information about the firewall, WAN ports, LAN ports, and VPN tunnels.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• "Enabling the Traffic Meter" on page 9-1
• "Activating Notification of Events and Alerts" on page 9-4
• "Viewing Firewall Logs" on page 9-6
• "Viewing Router Configuration and System Status" on page 9-7
• "Monitoring the Status of WAN Ports" on page 9-9
• "Monitoring Attached Devices" on page 9-10
• "Reviewing the DHCP Log" on page 9-12
• "Monitoring Active Users" on page 9-12
• "Viewing Port Triggering Status" on page 9-13
• "Monitoring VPN Tunnel Connection Status" on page 9-14
• "Reviewing the VPN Logs" on page 9-15

Enabling the 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 one or both WAN ports.
To monitor traffic limits on each of the WAN ports:
1. Select Monitoring > Traffic Meter from the main menu, and then the WAN1 Traffic Meter tab.
The WAN1 Traffic Meter screen will display.

Monitoring System Performance

v1.2, June 2008
Chapter 9
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