Tunnel Tracking

[Rashid_Anwar]

Hi There,

Anyone has used the VPN tunnel track option in tunnel management.

Does it gives alert for the tunnel up/down. we are having an issue , where the tunnel goes down number of times, but we want to track when the tunnel went down , went up. Does this feature is helpful.

[Jerry]

best bet would be a SNMP monitoring system, there are plenty of such solutions on the market ie. PRTG?Mutiny? etc.
Also bear in mind that tunnel up/down is indeed logged but not something you can see in a "Tracker" or "SmartLog" - rather than that you can see that on Gateway's /var/log files respectively.

I'd anyway recommend to use SNMP monitoring as it gives you more granular and detailed informations all-in-one place for every system/network specified probes.

[Maarten_Sjouw]

Jerry,

SNMP in this case is only useful when you can monitor through the tunnel. I do not know of any way to see if the tunnel is really up/down from a gateway perspective, even if you do there is no guarantee that it really is up and allowing traffic.

[Wolfgang]

You can monitor the state via SmartviewMonitor (still available on R80.xx) But you have to actively monitor.

 Eabling the tracking option for a permanent tunnel is too a possibility but not the best. Maybee you change the tracking option from log to sending mail or snmp trap.

Wolfgang