Reporting and Statistics

The FireBrick® provides a number of reports and diagnostics.

Statistics

The speed lanes and filters will shows basic usage statistics providing the clock is set. They both show the usage yesterday and so far today as Mb (mega bytes), as well as Last Month and This month. In addition, they show the current KB/s.
 
Speed lanes The usage is shown for traffic to the LAN and to the WAN separately
Filters This shows total traffic using this filter. Bear in mind that this is traffic both ways as a result of this filter, so a filter for all outgoing traffic will in fact show the total of all outgoing traffic and the responses (e.g. the content of web pages that were received as a result of an outgoing request). Look at the speed lane statistics for an indication of traffic in to and out of your network as a whole.

Diagnostics

The diagnostics menu allows you to view information about your network as seen by the FireBrick®.
 
Serial Number Your serial number
Time now The current time (only shown if the time is set)
Clock last set The time the clock was last set
LAN/WAN The number of machines seen on the LAN/WAN. This is a count from the MAC cache
LAN Usage The bar graph of current LAN usage
DHCP Server If a DHCP client, stats the DHCP server address(es).
Link A green square for each network link on WAN and LAN hub ports
Partition Indicates of the network connection has been disabled - this happens automatically if there is a fault with the connection
Reversal Indicates if any network connection has reversed polarity - i.e. the cable is incorrect (does not necessarily stop operation)
Noise Indicates if there is excessive noise on the link - indicating faulty cable or equipment connected
Sessions Lists the session stats (how many sessions on each protocol), and allows report of individual sessions with kill option.
Note, kill option only if user has edit rights for diagnositics. Can only view sessions associated with filters the user can view.
DHCP Lists all of the DHCP lease allocations with expiry dates and machine names where know
ARP Lists all ARP entries - the MAC/IP table used by the FireBrick®. This gives an indication of currently active machines attached to the FireBrick®.
MAC Lists all machines the FireBrick® has ever seen since last reset.
Sessions Lists actual sessions in progress.
Log Shows the current activity log, and stays following the log in real time. Use your browser STOP button if you do not want to continue to watch the log. This may not work via some types of web proxy that cannot cope with open ended pages like this.
Counters Details of stats for the low level ethernet drivers, including current traffic in and out.