Monitoring Sophos Firewall

eG Enterprise offers a 100% web-based Sophos monitoring model that monitors the status of the hardware and connections to the Sophos XG firewall, and in the process, reports abnormalities (if any).

Figure 1 : Layer model of Sophos Firewall

Every layer shown in Figure 1 is mapped to one/more tests that execute on the firewall and extract critical performance statistics/ metrics from the SNMP MIB of the firewall.

The metrics so collected would enable administrators to find accurate answers for the following performance queries:

• Is the RAM facing resource contention?

• Is the swap memory in use?

• Is the disk running out of space?

• Is there a protocol that is transferring too many / unwanted requests to the server?

• Is the current workload on the firewall high?

• Has any service stopped or had been dead for a long time?

• Is the target firewall available in a High Availability (HA) setup?

• What is the status of the license subscription? When is the subscription likely to expire?