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 that 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. To monitor an FTP connection, you must use the FTP
port. One entry per connection is sufficient for traffic in each direction.