Planet Technology MH-2001 - Manual (Page 267)

MH-2001 Multi-Homing Security Gateway User’s Manual
Chapter 9: Monitor
9.1 Log
MH-2001 supports traffic logging and event logging to monitor and record services, connection times, and the
source and destination network address. The Administrator may also download the log files for backup
purposes. The Administrator mainly uses the Log menu to monitor the traffic passing through MH-2001.
What is Log?
Log records all connections that pass through MH-2001’s control policies.
„ Traffic：Traffic log’s parameters are setup when setting up control policies. Traffic logs record the details
of packets such as the start and stop time of connection, the duration of connection, the source address,
the destination address and services requested, for each control policy.
„ Event ：Event logs record the contents of System Configuration changes made by the Administrator
such as the time of change, settings that change, the IP address used to log on, etc.
„ Connection：Record all the MH-2001 connecting information. MIS engineer can easily to know the
status depends on the connecting information when the problems happened.
How to use the Monitor
„ Traffic, MIS engineer can view the connection status includes time, source IP, destination IP and
disposition. MH-2001 can backup the traffic log and refresh the online record on specific time period.
„ Event, if MH-2001 detected some events happened, MIS engineer can know the events description and
backup it.
„ Connection, can record the connection status by this function.
„ Log Backup, MIS engineer can set the MH-2001 to automatically send the email alarm of traffic and
events or instantly send the log to syslog server.
The Administrator can use the log data to monitor and manage the device and the networks. The
Administrator can view the logged data to evaluate and troubleshoot the network, such as pinpointing the
source of traffic congestions.
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