Firewall engine performance counters

The following table lists the performance counters for the Firewall Engine.

Performance counter Description

Active Connections

The total number of active connections currently passing data.

Connections/sec

The number of new connections created per second.

TCP Established Connections/sec

The number of TCP connections newly established per second. A TCP connection is counted as established after the 3-way SYN handshake is completed successfully.

Bytes

The total number of bytes that passed through Forefront TMG.

Bytes/sec

The number of bytes passed through Forefront TMG per second.

Packets

The total number of packets inspected by Forefront TMG.

Packets/sec

The number of packets inspected by Forefront TMG per second.

Allowed Packets

The total number of packets that Forefront TMG allows to pass.

Allowed Packets/sec

The number of packets per second that Forefront TMG allows to pass.

Dropped Packets

The number of packets dropped by Forefront TMG.

Dropped Packets/sec

The number of packets dropped by Forefront TMG per second.

Backlogged Packets

The number of backlogged packets.