Traffic

Traffic Monitoring provides in-depth details on network traffic and activity. As a network administrator you can generate traffic information to:

Analyze network traffic patterns
Network traffic patterns help administrators determine which services demand the most network resources.
Audit and estimate costs of network use
Monitoring traffic can provide information on how the use of network resources is divided among corporate users and departments. Reports that summarize customer use of services, bandwidth and time can provide a basis to estimate costs for each user or department.
Identify the departments and users that generate the most traffic and the times of peak activity.
Detect and monitor suspicious activity. Network administrators can produce graphs and charts that document blocked traffic, alerts, rejected connections, or failed authentication attempts to identify possible intrusion attempts.

A Traffic view can be created to monitor the Traffic types listed in the following table.

Traffic Type	Explanation
Services	Shows the current status view about Services used through the selected gateway.
IPs/Network Objects	Shows the current status view about active IPs/Network Objects through the selected gateway.
Security Rules	Shows the current status view about the most frequently used Firewall rules. The Name column in the legend states the rule number as previously configured in SmartConsole.
Interfaces	Shows the current status view about the Interfaces associated with the selected gateway.
Connections	Shows the current status view about current connections initiated through the selected gateway.
Tunnels	Shows the current status view about the Tunnels associated with the selected gateway and their usage.
Virtual Link	Shows the current traffic status view between two gateways (for example, Bandwidth, Bandwidth Loss, and Round Trip Time).
Packet Size Distribution	Shows the current status view about packets according to the size of the packets.
QoS	Shows the current traffic level for each QoS rule. Note - "Top QoS Rules" view in SmartView Monitor shows that almost all traffic matches the "No Match" rule when SecureXL is enabled on the Security Gateway. Refer to sk118720.