How to Best Use This ChapterMonitoring and logging the traffic on your network is an important step in monitoring the health of your network and identifying attacks against your network. Syslog messages provide valuable information concerning the health of your PIX Firewall. These messages can also indicate attacks that are being launched against your network. Understanding the meaning and severity of various Syslog messages is the first step toward using these messages to actively monitor the operation of your network. Test yourself with the "Do I Know This Already?" quiz and see how familiar you are with the Syslog functionality available on PIX Firewalls. |