Monitoring System Performance; Activating Notification Of Events And Alerts - NETGEAR FVX538v2 - ProSafe VPN Firewall Dual WAN Reference Manual

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 page 6-23
• "Viewing the Logs" on page 6-26
• "Enabling the Traffic Meter" on page 6-27
• "Viewing the VPN Firewall Configuration and System Status" on page 6-30
• "Monitoring VPN Firewall Statistics" on page 6-31
• "Monitoring WAN Ports Status" on page 6-32
• "Monitoring Attached Devices" on page 6-33
• "Monitoring VPN Tunnel Connection Status" on page 6-34
• "Viewing the VPN Logs" on page 6-35
• "Viewing the DHCP Log" on page 6-36
• "Viewing Port Triggering Status" on page 6-36

Activating Notification of Events and Alerts

The Firewall 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 or DMZ; 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
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
page 6-26). 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
VPN Firewall and Network Management
ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 FVX538 Reference Manual
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