Chapter 10 Monitor System Access And Performance; Enable The Wan Traffic Meter - NETGEAR ProSafe FVS318N Reference Manual

Monitor System Access and Performance
10.
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. The chapter contains the
following sections:
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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
page 349.
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 the WAN port.
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To configure and monitor traffic limits on the WAN port:
1. Select Monitoring > Traffic Meter. The Broadband Traffic Meter screen displays.
The Internet Traffic Statistics section in the lower part of the screen displays statistics on
Internet traffic through the WAN port. If you have not enabled the traffic meter, these
statistics are not available.
Configure Logging, Alerts, and Event Notifications
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