Connection events are user-defined notifications of open
connections to or from particular addresses or ports. The appliance
generates connection events when it detects network activity at a
designated port, regardless of the type of activity, network packet,
or exchanged content.
About this task
The
Connection Events page lists
predefined connection events for different connection types, such
as WWW, FTP, or IRC. Use this page to customize these events or to
create your own events to cover the traffic you need to monitor. For
example, you can define a rule that causes a connection event to alert
the console whenever someone connects to the network using FTP.
Note: The
connections are always registered against the destination port you
specify, so to monitor an FTP connection, you must use the FTP port.
One entry per connection is sufficient for traffic in each direction.