VPN monitoring
We monitor Watchguard and Cisco firewalls. One of the things that we need to know is if a VPN drops. There are lots of graphs for VPN tunnel traffic etc, however there is no out of the box, easy wa...
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Antony_Hawkins
Employee
EmployeeHi Kris, Depending on your requirements, the Cisco IPSec Tunnel- and WatchGuard IPSec Tunnels- datasources (or clones of, for specific hosts) could both be adjusted to make discovered instances persistent, and also to then alert on no data, i.e. when a tunnel dropped and data ceased reporting. Equally it is possible to set an alert if, for example, the count of IP Sec Tunnels (in the CiscoASA datasource) decreases. Note, neither of these would not be able to differentiate between a deliberate disconnection and an alert-worthy drop. If you wish to explore this in more detail, please feel free to start a chat with an engineer and we can run through the options with you.
