VPN Reports

VPN Report tracks the traffic flowing through a pair of firewalls to which you have established a VPN tunnel. For example, if you are working on a local system that is protected by a firewall and you want to access information from a system that is remotely located and is protected by another firewall, then you need to establish a Site-to-Site IPSec VPN Tunnel for this purpose. VPN report tracks this network traffic information that passes through the pair of local and remote firewalls.

The traffic generated by data flowing from local firewall is tracked through Source VPN report and the traffic generated by data flowing from remote firewall is tracked through Destination VPN report.

Navigating to the VPN Reports

The Source and Destination VPN Reports can be accessed through the Firewall view for a specific firewall.

1. Navigate to (Undefined variable: Menu_Commands.Manager view > Firewall > Inventory) to view a list of all the firewall devices.

   

2. Click on the Name of the firewall device for which you want to view the VPN reports. You will be directed to the Firewall View for the selected device.

   

3. Click on Firewall View | Monitor > Summary > Source VPN to view the Source VPN reports page.

   

   This reports page shows information such as source vpn name, connections and percentage. You can also find the data in the form of a Pie Chart as well as a Graph. The Time Range option lets you customize the time duration of the report to show data from the last hour to the last 365 days. You can also use the Custom button to customize the dates. The Refresh button is used to refresh the page.

   This page lets you view 2 sets of report at the same time which can be selected from a list of By Metrics:

   • Connections
   • Total Data Transferred
   • Total Connections Blocked
   • Intrusions
   • Virus
   • Spyware
   • Connections blocked by Botnet Filter
   • Connections blocked by Access Rule
   • Connections blocked by GeoIP Filter
   • Connections blocked by Threats
   • Connections blocked by CFS service
   • Connections blocked by App Rule
   • Data Sent
   • Data Received

4. Click on Details, below each report, to go to the details page of the VPN report. You can also view the page by selecting Monitor view at the top of the page and navigating to Details > Source VPN.

   

   The top of the Details page shows a graphical representation of the selected By Metric data over a time period. You can change the information on the graph according to the above mentioned By Metric list by using the drop down button, at the top of the page. You can also hover above the graph to see more information.

   You have a Time Range option that lets you customize the time duration of the report. The Limit drop down is used to set the limit of the number of displayed firewall device. You can further filter the graph according to a specific time by using the Time Slider which is present above the graph.

   You can also click on Refresh button to refresh the information on the page and export the table in CSV format using the Export button.

   The bottom of the page has a table that shows information such as name of the source vpn, connections and total data transferred. The rest of the columns of the table can be selected from the Column Config button at the top of the page. The total information of each column can be seen at the extreme bottom of the page.

5. Click on the Search icon next to the name of the firewall to see drill down to groups information.

   

   You can view and generate a similar report for the destination firewall by selecting the Destination VPN page under Summary.