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The Appliance Dashboard provides useful statistics about the Network IPS appliance, such as health, top attacks, memory, and interface status.

About this task

The Appliance Dashboard is a convenient tool that you can use to view the health, status, and performance of your appliance. Use the Dashboard to analyze trends in your security network, or use it to navigate to specific pages to troubleshoot and research security events. You can also use the Appliance Dashboard to view general information, such as the model, firmware version, available memory, uptime, or backup version.

Procedure

  1. In the Security area, click the arrow to view Top 10 attacks, Top 10 intruders, or Top 10 victims.
    Note: You can click a certain attack, intruder, or victim to view the appropriate Security page for more detailed information.
  2. In the Network area, click the arrow to view Total bytes/second or Total packets/second.
    Note: You can click the table or click on a specific interface to view the appropriate Network page for more detailed information.