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Health and Performance Monitoring
The Health and Performance Monitor (HPM) application lets you monitor key health and performance
data for ASA devices, IPS devices, and VPN services by providing network-level visibility into device
status and traffic information.
A variety of views are provided—All Devices, Firewall Devices, IPS Devices, VPN Summary, and so
on—and you can create your own customized views. A configurable listing of device alerts is also
available.
This ability to monitor key network and device metrics lets you quickly detect and resolve device
malfunctions and bottlenecks in the network.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• Health and Performance Monitor Overview, page 68-1
• HPM Access Control, page 68-3
• Preparing for Health and Performance Monitoring, page 68-4
• Launching the Health and Performance Monitor, page 68-4
• Managing Monitored Devices, page 68-5
• HPM Window, page 68-6
• Monitoring Devices, page 68-19
• Alerts and Notifications, page 68-28
Health and Performance Monitor Overview
The Health and Performance Monitor is a stand-alone application that you can launch from the other
stand-alone Security Manager applications (Configuration Manager, Event Viewer, Report Manager, and
Image Manager); from the Windows Start menu; or from its icon on your desktop.
The HPM application complements the Event Viewer and Report Manager applications, as follows:
• Event Viewer – Monitors your network for syslog (system log) events from ASA and FWSM
devices and their security contexts, and for SDEE (Secure Device Event Exchange) events from IPS
devices and virtual sensors. These events include firewall traffic information, NAT events, failover
events, IPS alerts, and so on. Event Viewer collects and displays this information, organized into a
variety of views. See Chapter 66, “Viewing Events” for more information.