High Network Traffic Notifications Parent topic

Deep Discovery Inspector can send notifications when network traffic reaches the specified threshold. Increased activity might indicate an attack on your network.

Procedure

  1. Go to Administration → Notifications → Notification Settings → High Network Traffic.
  2. Select Notify Administrator if network traffic exceeds normal traffic pattern.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • Click Auto-Detect to allow Deep Discovery Inspector to define the normal traffic threshold.
    • Manually specify the traffic threshold for each hour of the day.
      Note
      Note
      The amount of network traffic is rounded up to the nearest whole number. For example, 1.2 GB displays as 2 GB and 2.6 GB displays as 3 GB.
  4. (Optional) Configure the notification recipients.
    For details, see Configuring Email Notification Settings.
  5. (Optional) Modify the default subject and message body.
    Note
    Note
    • The message body cannot exceed 4,096 characters.
    • The message subject cannot exceed 256 characters.
    You can use any of the following message tokens when customizing the notification.
    Message Tokens
    Description
    __TIMESTAMP__
    Notification date and time
    __ TRAFFIC_END_TIME__
    Traffic monitoring end date and time
    __ TRAFFIC_START_TIME__
    Traffic monitoring start date and time
    __ TRAFFIC_THRESHOLD__
    Network traffic threshold
  6. Click Save.