Tracking web service activity

This chapter explains how to track the activity of web services in the SNS firewall's administration interface. These explanations will allow you to adjust your configurations based on the activity of web services that you observe.

In firewall monitoring

Monitoring allows you to view in real time, for each monitored web service:

• The number of connections set up,

• Incoming bandwidth consumed,

• Outgoing bandwidth consumed.

To monitor a web service:

1. Go to Configuration > Notifications > Monitoring configuration, Web service configuration tab.

2. Click on Add and select a web service. You can add up to 10 services.

3. Click on Apply.

To look up the curves of monitored web services:

1. Go to Monitoring > Monitoring > Web services.

2. Click on the tab of the data that you want to view.

In firewall reports

Reports allow you to view the top 10 web services over a specific time range (last hour, last day, last 7 days and last 30 days) for which:

• There was the most traffic in terms of volume of data exchanged,

• The highest number of connections was recorded.

To look up reports:

1. In Configuration > Notifications > Report configuration, ensure that Static reports and Web service reports are enabled.

2. Go to Monitoring > Reports > Web services and click on the report that you want to view.

3. On the report, change the time range if necessary. If you have just enabled the reports, wait for a few minutes while the SNS firewall retrieves enough data to create reports.

In the firewall's audit logs

Some logs may show the source or destination web service. To look up a log, go to Monitoring > Logs - Audit logs and select the log in question.

Some information can be accessed if the user has been granted permissions to look up private data. If you hold this permission or a code to access private data, click on Logs: restricted access in the upper banner. For further information, refer to the Technical note Complying with privacy regulations.