11. Logging and Other Features

Many events of interest are logged (Figure 16), and the 9000VPN's interface give you the ability to show All, System, Incoming, Outgoing, Firewall and Content Filter events. Web traffic is logged via the Outgoing log, but reverse DNS isn't supported so you'll have to figure out where Junior is browsing by looking up the logged IP addresses yourself.

Negatives are that neither email alerts or periodic emailing of logs are supported and new events are added to the end of the log, forcing you to click through multiple pages to see the latest happenings. That syslog enable you see in the screenshot below is also tempting, but it currently doesn't work since it doesn't allow you to specify the IP to send the logs to.

Figure 16: The Log

There are a number of other features to be found among the 9000VPN's admin pages, which I've summarized below for your convenience:

The Mail Monitoring feature lets you define six groups of six users each that can be on six secure or unsecure POP3 and IMAP servers. Two lights on the 9000VPN's front panel can be set to various combinations of on, off and blink to indicate when incoming mail has been processed for any of the defined users. You can view assorted LAN and WAN traffic statistics Dynamic DNS is supported for DynDNS.org and ODS.org DHCP server that allows you to set lease and maximum lease times, reserve IP addresses by client MAC address and specify boot files and TFTP server IP You can display static routes, ARP and Host Name tables and add entries to each (see this OvisLink FAQ) Built-in ping and traceroute utilities The USB Device Information page shows serial #, speed, USB version, Vendor ID, Product ID, Revision Number and Device Type for attached devices.