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This section provides an overview of the monitoring features of Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006.

ISA Server monitoring features include:

  • Dashboard. The Dashboard view summarizes monitoring information about sessions, alerts, services, reports, connectivity, and general system health.
  • Alerts. The Firewall service notifies you when specified events occur. You can configure alert definitions to trigger a series of actions when an event occurs.
  • Session monitoring. Using the real-time monitoring feature, you can centrally monitor ISA Server computer activity.
  • Services. You can monitor the status of the ISA Server services from ISA Server Management.
  • Logs. ISA Server provides several logging options, that enable you to track traffic that is handled by ISA Server.
  • Reports. You can use the reporting feature to summarize and analyze communication patterns.
  • Connectivity. Using the connectivity feature, you can verify connectivity by regularly monitoring connections from the ISA Server computer to any specific computer or URL on any network.
  • Performance monitor. Performance data can be viewed in a report or in various graph and log formats.
  • Configuration status. (Enterprise Edition) The configuration status view helps you validate that all the arrays have been updated with the configuration information from the Configuration Storage server to which ISA Server Management is connected.

More details about ISA Server monitoring are provided in Monitoring Concepts in ISA Server at ISA Server Guidance(https://www.microsoft.com/).