Using the Dashboard

The Dashboard is shown when the Home tab is clicked. It is the first page you see when you log in. You can also customize your Dashboard Views as per requirements.

Dashboard Views selection is available only in the Home tab.

Once the server has started receiving records, the Dashboard dynamically changes to display the current statistics for each device whose log files are analyzed. The Firewall Analyzer dashboard shows the:

• Traffic Overview Graphs
• Security Overview Graphs
• Traffic Statistics
• Security Statistics
• Basic Search
• Advanced Search

The Traffic Overview graphs shows protocol-wise distribution of traffic across each device. At one glance, you can see the total traffic generated by each protocol group across each device. You can also drill down from the bars in the graph to see specific protocol usage in the Protocol Usage Report.

The Security Overview graphs shows distribution of security events like attack, virus, port scans, etc.. generated across each device. Drill down from the bars in the graph to see the corresponding events generated.

Firewall Analyzer will recognize only those firewall log messages which contains the attribute denoting a port scan. Currently Firewall Analyzer recognizes the attribute denoting a port scan for Fortigate, NetScreen & CheckPoint firewall's alone.

The Traffic Statistics table, shows the Traffic Overview graph's data in more detail, with specific percentage values of incoming and outgoing traffic per protocol group across each device. The Show bar lets you view the the top 5(default) / 10 / 15 or All protocol groups, captured in the logs across the configured devices. You can click on the Traffic IN, Traffic OUT, and Total Traffic for each protocol group of the configured device to obtain the drill-downs of the traffic. If the icon is displayed above the table, it indicates that intranet's have not been configured. You need to configure intranet's if you want to separate inbound and outbound firewall traffic.

The traffic values in the table let you drill down to see traffic details for the corresponding protocol group in the Protocol Usage Report.

The Quick Reports link provides you 'quick' access to the top level details of traffic like Top Hosts, Top Destinations, Top Conversations, Top Protocol Groups, Top Firewall Rules, Top VPN Reports, and Top Attack Reports for the corresponding firewall.

Quick Reports for Squid Proxies will provide only the following reports: Top Hosts, Top Destinations, and Top Conversations.

The icon next to the Unassigned protocol group indicates traffic details for protocols that have not been assigned to any protocol group. Click the icon, and under the View Identifiers tab, you can see the traffic details for each of these unassigned protocols. The Assign Group tab provides you with options to either associate these unknown protocols to the predefined Protocol Groups (and Protocols) or create a new Protocol Group (and Protocol). You can do this by selecting from the listed identifier and assigning it to either the pre-defined Protocol Group (and Protocol) or create a new protocol group (and new Protocol).

Multiple Selection enables you to assign multiple identifiers to a particular protocol group (and protocol). Single selection enables you to assign each of the individual identifier to a particular protocol group (and protocol).

The Security Statistics table, shows the Security Overview graph's data in more detail, along with the distribution of the Configured Alerts. The Configured Alerts are classified according to the priority as High, Medium, and Low. Clicking on the alert counts against High, Medium, Low, or All Alerts will list you complete details like Alert Profile name, the generated time, the device for which the alert was raised, the alert priority, and the status of the alert.

The security statistics table provides you with the counts for attacks, virus, failed log ons, security events, and denied events.

Attacks: Firewall Analyzer will recognize only those firewall log messages which contains the attribute denoting an attack.

Virus: Firewall Analyzer will recognize only those firewall log messages which contains the attribute denoting a virus.

Currently Firewall Analyzer recognizes the attribute denoting a virus for almost all firewall's except Cisco Pix, whose log messages do not contain the attribute denoting a virus.

Failed Log Ons: Firewall Analyzer will recognize only those firewall log messages which contains the attribute denoting a failed log on.

Currently Firewall Analyzer recognizes the attribute denoting a failed log on for Fortigate, NetScreen, Cisco Pix, & Identiforce firewall's Failed Log Ons are not available for CheckPoint firewall's

Denied Events: Firewall Analyzer will recognize only those firewall log messages which contains the attribute denoting a denied request.

Security Events: The Security Events in Firewall Analyzer are based on the severity attributes Emergency, Alert, Critical, and Error only.

Since Security Events are based on severity attributes, they may also include the other events like port scans, attacks, virus, failed log ons, security events, and denied events.

Clicking on the counts against each of the above events in the security statistics table will lead you to the corresponding the quick reports for those events.

Editing Device Details

Click the (for firewall) or (for squid) icon next to a device name to change the device's details. You can change the device's display name, up link speed and down link speed. The device name and the vendor type cannot be changed.

Up Link Speed and Down Link Speed determines the % IN Traffic and % OUT traffic.

Click the icon to delete the device from the database. You are asked to confirm your choice, after which the device is permanently deleted.

When a device is deleted, all existing data pertaining to that device is permanently deleted from the database. Later if logs are received from that device, the device is added as a new device, and reports are generated. To stop this from happening, you need to configure the device to stop sending logs to Firewall Analyzer.

Search

Doing a search in Firewall Analyzer UI is easy. Firewall Analyzer offers both a Basic Search and Advanced Search in all the pages of the product. The search results can be saved as report profiles and can also be scheduled to run the search and mail the report profile on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or once only basis. But the reports profiles created via search cannot be edited and will not contain graphical representation of data, and drill down facility.

Basic Search, enables you to search for the following :

Advanced Search, offers numerous options for making your searches more precise and getting more useful results Aggregated Logs Database. It allows you to search from the Raw Firewall Logs.

In Advance Search, you can search the logs for the selected devices, from the aggregated logs database or raw firewall logs, and define matching criteria.

Selected Devices

In this section, you can choose the devices for which you want the logs to be searched. If no device is selected or you want to change the list of selected devices, select the devices.

1. Click Change Selection link.
2. Select Devices from the list window pops-up. In that window, All Devices with selection check box and individual devices with selection check boxes options are available.
3. Select the devices by selecting the check boxes as per your requirement. Click OK to select the devices and close the window or click Cancel to cancel the opration and close the window.

The selected devices are displayed in this section.

Search From

In this section, you can select one from the two options:

1. Aggregated Logs Database
2. Raw Firewall Logs

1. Aggregated Logs Database

Select this option if you want to search from the aggregated logs database.

2. Raw Firewall Logs

Select this option if you want to search from the raw firewall logs. Selecting this option will enable the following options:

1. Raw VPN Logs
2. Raw Virus/Attack Logs
3. Raw Device Management Logs
4. Raw Denied Logs
   

Select the above logs options as per your requirement.

Define Criteria

This section, enables you to search the database for attributes using more than one following criteria's:

• If the search string exists then the search result will be intelligently displayed based on the report category in which it occurred.
• By default, the search is carried out for the time period selected in the Global Calendar present in the left pane of the UI.
• You can also search within the search results.

Advanced Search of Imported Firewall Logs

You can carry out Advanced Search on the imported Firewall logs.