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What are the differences between system history vs firewall history in SmartView Monitor?

udanap — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:10:36 GMT

Hi Guys,

What are the differences between System History and Firewall History come under SmartView Monitor > System Counters? Please refer the image for more details.

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Best Regards !

Re: What are the differences between system history vs firewall history in SmartView Monitor?

G_W_Albrecht — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:27:31 GMT

Just look at the counters after clicking View Properties:

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Re: What are the differences between system history vs firewall history in SmartView Monitor?

Timothy_Hall — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:45:32 GMT

Not much really. The Firewall History report provides system statistics directly related to firewall enforcement such as overall CPU usage, memory consumed, number of concurrent connections, and overall packet rate. The System History report focuses more on resource utilization in the underlying Gaia OS, nonspecific to firewall enforcement. Stats are free disk space, and overall CPU usage further divided into kernel/system space (sy/si/hi as displayed in top) vs. process/user space (us/ni as displayed in top). On an older firewall with User Space Firewall (USFW) disabled, the vast majority of firewall CPU utilization happens in kernel/system space. On newer firewalls with USFW enabled, the vast majority of firewall CPU utilization happens in process/user space.

Re: What are the differences between system history vs firewall history in SmartView Monitor?

udanap — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:24:18 GMT

Thanks for the update. As per you understanding, what would be the most appropriate indicator to get an idea of the throughput of the firewall?

Re: What are the differences between system history vs firewall history in SmartView Monitor?

G_W_Albrecht — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 14:30:13 GMT

Why not use Bytes Throughput ?