Checking the Dashboard

Constraints

VPC border protection details can be viewed only after a VPC border firewall is configured.

Checking the Dashboard

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, click and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
4. (Optional) Switch or view firewall instances.
   • Switch to another firewall instance: Select a firewall from the drop-down list in the upper left corner of the page.
     Figure 1 Switching to another firewall instance
     
   • View firewall instance information: Click Firewall List in the upper right corner. For details about parameters, see Firewall instance information.
     Figure 2 Viewing firewall instance information
     

     Table 1 Firewall instance information

     Parameter	Description
     Firewall Name/ID	Name and ID of the firewall.
     Status	Firewall status.
     Edition	Edition of a firewall.
     Available EIP Protection Quota	Maximum number of EIPs that can be protected by the firewall.
     Peak Traffic Protection	Maximum peak traffic that can be protected by the firewall.
     Billing Mode	Billing mode of the current firewall.
     Enterprise Project	Enterprise project that the firewall belongs to.
     Operation	Check instance details.

5. In the Resource Overview area, view the protection status of all cloud resources (EIPs and VPCs) in the current region under the current account.
6. In the Security Events area, view the overall protection details of the intrusion prevention function to quickly locate the cloud assets to be protected.
   • In the upper right corner, change the query range, from 5 minutes to 7 days.
   • Add a protection policy to handle the IP addresses or domain names of the abnormal external connections.
     1. Click the number of Abnormal External Destination IP Addresses or Abnormal External Destination Domain Names.
     2. In the displayed dialog box, select an IP address or domain name.
     3. Generate an address group or domain name group:
        • Create as an address group or domain group: A new address group or domain name group will be generated.
        • Add to an existing address group or domain group: Add the item to an existing address group or domain name group.
     4. Add the address group or domain name group to the protection rule or blacklist/whitelist. For details, see Access Control Policy Overview.

7. In the Protection Rules area, view the number of inactive rules and the total number of rules.

   For details about the policies that are not matched, click the number of Policies Inactive for Over a Month to go to the Policy Assistant page and view the policies at the bottom.

8. View firewall instance information.

   Table 2 describes the parameters in the Firewall Details area on the right part of the page.

   Table 2 Firewall instance details

   Parameter		Description
   Basic Information	Version	Firewall edition. Standard and professional editions are supported.
   	Firewall Name	Firewall instance name. You can click to change the name.
   	Firewall ID	Firewall instance ID.
   	Status	Firewall status. It takes about 5 minutes to update the firewall status after purchase or unsubscription.
   	Enterprise Project	Enterprise project that the firewall belongs to.
   Flavor	Used/Available EIP Protection Quota	Number of protected EIPs/Total number of EIPs under the current CFW instance.
   	Used/Available VPC Protection Quota	Number of protected VPCs/Total number of VPCs under a firewall instance.
   	Internet Border Protection Bandwidth	Maximum inbound or outbound traffic of all EIPs protected by CFW.
   	VPC Border Protection Bandwidth	Peak east-west traffic that can be protected. Maximum total traffic of all VPCs protected by CFW.
   	Used/Available Protection Rules	Number of created protection rules/Total number of protection rules that can be created under a firewall instance.
   Transaction Details	Billing Mode	Billing mode
   	Upon Expiration	Billing policy after the firewall instance expires.
   	Created	Time at which the firewall instance is created.
   	Expires	Estimated expiration time of the firewall instance.
   	Last Transaction Order	Latest transaction order of the firewall instance.
   Tags		Configure tags to identify firewalls so that you can classify and trace firewall instances. For details about Tag Management Service (TMS), see Resource Tag Overview.

9. On the Operations Dashboard page, view the overall protection data of cloud resources.

   Click the Internet Boundaries or Inter-VPC Borders tab to view the corresponding overall protection data.

   In the upper right corner, change the query range, from 5 minutes to 7 days.

   • View the blocking results of access control policies and the maximum inbound and outbound traffic.
   • Traffic Trend displays the inbound, outbound, and overall traffic trends. You can select Average or Maximum in the upper right corner..

     Table 3 Values

     Time Range	Average	Maximum
     Last 1 hour	Average value within every minute	Maximum value within every minute
     Last 24 hours	Average value within 5 minutes	Maximum value within 5 minutes
     Last 7 days	Average value within one hour	Maximum value within one hour
     Custom	5 minutes to 6 hours: average value within 1 minute 6 hours (included) to 3 days: average value within 5 minutes 3 (included) to 7 days (included): average value within 30 minutes	5 minutes to 6 hours: maximum value within 1 minute 6 hours (included) to 3 days: maximum value within 5 minutes 3 to 7 days (included): maximum value within 30 minutes

   • Attacks: View the traffic blocked or allowed by intrusion prevention.
   • Access Control: View the traffic blocked or allowed by access control policies.