Monitoring the PIX Firewall Using PDM

Monitoring the PIX Firewall Using PDM

One of the abounding benign aspects of PDM is the adeptness to visually adviser virtually

every aspect of the firewall in abreast absolute time. Information such as VPN

connectivity, ability utilization, history bandwidth trending, and administrative

maintenance abstracts can all be beheld via collapsed or bright letters with PDM.

This functionality is accessible from the Monitoring tab of the PDM interface.

Click the Monitoring tab from the capital PDM interface to appearance the

Monitoring awning apparent in Figure 9.77.

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Much like the System Properties screen, the Monitoring awning includes various

categories on the larboard ancillary of the screen.When you bang a category, information

pertinent to the class is displayed on the appropriate ancillary of the screen.

In the archetype in Figure 9.77, the PDM Log class is displayed. Clicking

the PDM Log class allows you to appearance the accepted PDM log based on the

logging akin you baddest from the Logging Akin pull-down list. After you click

the Appearance button, the log appears. From the PDM Log Viewer window, you can

choose to clear, refresh, or abutting the window.To appearance the PDM log, you must

enable PDM logging from the Logging class begin on the System Properties

tab.

Many of the categories, such as PDM Users or Telnet Console Sessions,

describe sessions or statistical abstracts in absolute time on the PIX firewall back you

click the category. Others, such as VPN Statistics,VPN Connection Graphs, and

System Graphs, appearance abreast real-time adapted graphs and/or tables.We altercate all

of these and added in this section.