Panorama Interfaces Test
An interface serves as a crucial link between the Panorama and the managed firewalls. Monitoring the interfaces ensures that connectivity remains stable, allowing the target panorama to collect logs, and manage devices effectively.
This test monitors various statistics of interest for each interface of a Panorama. This test alerts the administrator whenever any abnormal activity is detected on any of the target Palo Alto Panorama interfaces.
Target of the test: Palo Alto Panorama
Agent deploying the test: A Remote Agent
Outputs of the test: One set of results for each interface in the Palo Alto Panorama that is being monitored.
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Parameter |
Description |
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Test period |
How often should the test be executed. |
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Host |
The IP address of the target host to be monitored. |
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Port |
Specify the port at which the specified host listens to. |
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API Key |
The eG agent collects the required metrics from the target Palo Alto Panorama by executing API commands using XML API and pulls out critical metrics. In order to collect metrics, the eG agent should be provided with a valid API key. |
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SSL |
By default, this flag is set to Yes indicating that the SSL (Secured Socket Layer) is used to connect to the target Palo Alto Panorama. If not so, set the SSL flag to No . |
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Measurement |
Description |
Measurement Unit |
Interpretation |
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Status |
Indicates whether/not this interface is up. |
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The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalent are mentioned in the table below:
Note: By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the status of the interface in the target Palo Alto Panorama. However, in the graph of this measure, states will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents only - i.e., 0 or 1. |
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Data transmitted |
Indicates the rate of data transmitted by the router over this interface. |
KBPS |
This value is an indicator of the instantaneous traffic transmitted over this interface. |
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Data received |
Indicates the rate of data received by the router over this interface. |
KBPS |
This value is an indicator of the instantaneous traffic received over this interface. |
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Broadcast packets transmitted |
Indicates the rate at which broadcast packets were sent by this interface. |
Packets/sec |
Broadcast is the term used to describe communication where a piece of information is sent from one point to all other points. In this case there is just one sender, but the information is sent to all connected receivers. |
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Broadcast packets received |
Indicates the rate at which broadcast packets were received by this interface. |
Packets/sec |
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Unicast packets transmitted |
Indicates the rate at which unicast packets were sent by this interface. |
Packets/sec |
Unicast is the term used to describe the communication that involves sending data from one point in the network to another point, with only one sender and one receiver involved.
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Unicast packets received |
Indicates the rate at which unicast packets were received by this interface. |
Packets/sec |
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Multicast packets received |
Indicates the rate at which multicast packets were received by this interface. |
Packets/sec |
Multicast is the term used to describe communication where a piece of information is sent from one or more points to a set of other points. In this case there is may be one or more senders, and the information is distributed to a set of receivers (there may be no receivers, or any other number of receivers). |
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Packets transmitted |
Indicates the rate at which data packets were transmitted by this interface. |
Packets/sec |
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Packets received |
Indicates the rate at which data packets were received by this interface. |
Packets/sec |
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Received errors |
Indicates the number of errors received in the interface. |
Number |
Ideally, the value of this measure should be 0. |
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Received drops |
Indicates the number of drops in the interface. |
Number |
This measure refers to instances where packets are not successfully processed or forwarded by the firewall. Ideally, the value of this measure should be 0. |
