Manage a Cisco PIX, SonicWALL or Fortinet Firewall

SilverBack's default Monitoring Policies contain several default Monitoring Policy Templates (MPTs) that provide a standard, base-level of monitoring support for network infrastructure devices such as routers and switches and firewalls.

A Monitoring Policy Template is a sample Monitoring Policy - it cannot be applied to a target scope. It is used to create a standard set of monitoring rules that can be built once, and then used in many Monitoring Policies.

SilverBack provides you with three MPTs that contain Event Monitors to enhance your firewall monitoring service:

Best practice for enhanced Cisco PIX, Fortigate and/or SonicWALL firewall monitoring is to create a Firewalls Monitoring Policy and then add those MPTs to it. Or, you can add them to an existing policy. In addition, built-in security reports provide visibility into your firewall service levels.

 

See Add a Monitoring Policy for instructions for creating a Monitoring Policy.

Use only the Attributes tab to configure the policy's:

  • Parent Management Domain

  • Name

  • Optional description

  • Visibility to subdomains

  • Enabled/Disabled status

  • Applicability to desktops (in this case, not applicable)

Then, return to this topic to continue with the following procedures to manage your Cisco PIX, Fortigate or SonicWALL firewall:

 

Adding a Monitoring Policy Template to a Monitoring Policy

  1. From the Monitoring category page click on the Browse Monitoring Policies link to display the Monitoring Policies report.

  1. Click on a Monitoring Policy, and then click on the Edit button to display the Edit Monitoring Policy form.

 

  1. Click on the Templates tab.

  2. In the Policy Templates tab, expand your own Service Provider Management Domain, then expand the All Monitoring Policy Templates selector.

  3. Scroll down until you see the policy template(s) you want to include, then click in their corresponding checkboxes to select them.

  4. Click on the Save button.

 

The display refreshes to the Monitoring Policies report. Now you will have highly advanced monitoring capabilities for your firewall monitoring service, including insightful performance reports as described below.

 

Viewing Firewall Performance Reports

  1. From the Assets category page click on the Browse Firewalls link to display the Firewall Summary report, which provides a summary of each firewall's performance data.

 

  1. To trend the report, select a firewall or a set of firewalls, then select a Granularity, From time and To time from the sidebar's Filters pane.

  2. Click on the Apply button to display a trended report with a chart.

 

  1. To display the Firewall Vulnerability Audits report, click on the Report Type filter, select the Firewall Vulnerability Audits option, then click on the Apply button.

 

The Firewall Vulnerability Audits report provides a summary of all firewall vulnerabilities found during the last vulnerability scan.

 

 

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