topic How to find out cause Bytes Throughput high in Firewall and Security Management

How to find out cause Bytes Throughput high

Rifqi — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:40:35 GMT

Hi mates, I have a little confusion maybe in this forum someone knows, so I want to know the cause of the high bytes throughput from the gateway, so to see the details of the cause in which section of the menu?

Re: How to find out cause Bytes Throughput high

PhoneBoy — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:30:44 GMT

cpview in history mode at the relevant time period should give you insight as to what was going on on the system at the time.

Re: How to find out cause Bytes Throughput high

Lesley — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:46:58 GMT

You can follow this SK for SmartView monitor, maybe it helps:

https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk33198

Please note that this blade is somewhat limited regarding keeping track of history data. If it is not there it is simply not possible

Alternative is cpview in history mode

CLI on active fw: cpview -t

Then press T and enter relevant date and timestamp.

Example:

Re: How to find out cause Bytes Throughput high

the_rock — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:37:15 GMT

Apart from what the guys said, you can also check out below.

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Security-Gateways/How-to-view-cpview-history-file-on-other-machine/td-p/162600

Andy