Protection Profile Top Talkers
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The Protection Profile Top Talkers tab shows historical statistics related to Denial of Service (DoS) for the selected appliance. This chart is only available if the selected appliance has a firewall protection profile applied.
The Protection Profile Top Talkers chart will show 10, 25, or 50 IPs that produce the top concurrent flow, flows per second, or embryonic flows. You can also select to show the top IPs that cross the min/max thresholds. Use this data to monitor network behavior based on DoS activity to identify how the device is operating with the current DDoS settings and determine how to tune the settings to obtain the expected behavior.
TIP: Click the information icon in the IPs column to display details about the IP address.
You can customize the chart settings using the controls at the top of the tab, as follows:
Option | Description |
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Time period | Click a predefined time period (1h, 4h, 1d, 7d) to display statistics over the last hour, four hours, day, or seven days. Click Custom and set your own custom time range to display statistics for that time period. |
Top | Select 10, 25, or 50 to view the top 10, 25, or 50 IPs that produce the most concurrent flow, flows per second, or embryonic flows. |
Flow Count | Click this option to display the concurrent flow counts, embryonic flow counts, and flows per second. The DoS feature monitors the Protection Profile Top Talkers on a per host basis. You can sort the Concurrent flows, Flows per second, and Embryonic flows columns in ascending or descending order. Click the column heading to toggle the sort order. |
Violations Count | Click this option to display the minimum and maximum threshold violation counts. The chart shows the maximum and minimum threshold violations for the segment and zone of each IP. |
Export | Click Export to save the contents of the Protection Profile Top Talkers table to a CSV file. |
Refresh | Click the Refresh button to fetch data again for the selected time period. |