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Administration Guide 141
Recovering from a Failure of the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway
bottom right corner, you can view process and network activity levels; mouse over the two graphs to
view numeric data.
To open the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway Administration Desktop
1 Open a Web browser and type the IP address or FQDN of the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. The
accepted formats are
https://IPaddress or https://FQDN .
2 In the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway Administration Portal, click Downloads .
3 Under Administration , click Launch Firebox SSL VPN Gateway Administration Desktop .
The monitoring applications are as follows.
Firebox SSL Real-time Monitor
Shows the open client connections. To view details about a connection, click the arrow for the
user name.
From the monitor, you can temporarily close a connection by connection type (TCP and so on),
disable a user (the user cannot connect until you enable the user), and enable a user again. For
more information, see “Managing Client Connections” on page 133.
Ethereal Network Analyzer
Enables you to interactively browse packet data from a live network or from a previously saved
capture file. For more information, refer to the Help that is available from the Ethereal Network
Analyzer window.
xNetTools
Multi-threaded network tool that includes a service scanner, port scanner, ping utility, ping
scan, name scan, whois query, and finger query. This is located on the
Tools menu.
Traceroute
Combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping commands in one network diagnostic
tool. As Traceroute starts, it investigates the network connection between the Firebox SSL VPN
Gateway and the destination host that you specify. After it determines the address of each
network hop between the devices, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO request to each one to
determine the quality of the link to each device. As it does this, it prints running statistics about
each device.
fnetload
Provides real-time network interface statistics. It checks the /proc/net/dev every second and
builds a graphical representation of its values.
System Monitor
Shows information about CPU usage and memory/swap usage. For more information, refer to
the Help available from the System Monitor window.
Recovering from a Failure of the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway
In the event of a total system failure, you must do four procedures to recover:
• reinstall the v 4.9 software on your Firebox® SSL Core appliance
• back up your configuration settings
• apply the v 5.0 software update