A little-known feature is that the SmartView Monitor does have some historical reporting capabilities; these were covered on pages 464-466 of the latest edition of my Max Power book. However these historical reports may have limited data unless you have set these checkboxes on the gateway/cluster object (they aren't enabled by default):
![monitoring_checkboxes.png monitoring_checkboxes.png](https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12039i48058197652BC5BC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999)
Once those have checkboxes been enabled and policy installed, in SmartConsole go to Device & License information for the gateway in question, then select Traffic...Top Interfaces. Now select the "New" button as shown here:
![monitoring_new.png monitoring_new.png](https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12040i9C0A09C22367AA66/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999)
This screen will give you the option to select a History report instead of Real Time which is the default:
![monitor_history.png monitor_history.png](https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12041iCADDDC8E5BC1F6E2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999)
Then select which data elements & timeframe you want in your historical report on the Traffic History tab:
![monitor_timeframe.png monitor_timeframe.png](https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12042i5A82D6ACDD0527BF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999)
Many of the Traffic and System Counters reports have historically-based reports available, it is just a matter of creating a custom report query to see them since real-time mode is the default.
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