Internet Monitor

Form tabs

Protocols

Security

Control

General

Connections

Directory

HTTP

Logging Levels

Use this form to remotely monitor and control Internet Services.

Protocols tab

Use this tab to check session load and Internet activity on your system, and to determine whether you need to modify any protocol settings.

Internet connection	Lights are green when you are connected to the Internet and black when you are not connected to the Internet.
Last reset	The last time the Internet Monitor was reset.
Version	The Internet Services version currently active.
Status	This light is green when the protocol is enabled, yellow if enabled but temporarily unavailable, and black if disabled.
Active connections	The current number of active connections for this protocol.
Peak	The LED lights to the right of the Totals bars on the Total lines. Lights are black if none of the protocols in the group are enabled and green if at least one protocol in the group is enabled and there is no overload condition. Lights are yellow if the number of current active connections reaches or exceeds 66% of the total connections you have defined for the group. If the LED is yellow, consider adding sessions. Lights are red if the number of current active sessions reaches 100% of the total connections you have defined for the group. If the LED is red, this means service was denied, and you should add sessions if memory allows. Lights will stay yellow or red until you click Reset or restart Internet Services.
Hits/Items	The total number of connections since you last clicked Reset.
Transferred	The amount of data, in kilobytes, transferred using this protocol since you last clicked Reset.
Reset button	Resets the date and time, clears the Hits/Items, resets peak LEDs and Transferred sections.

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Security tab

Use this tab to view information on suspected abuse of your Internet Services system.

Suspected Abuse or DOS	This section shows the details of IP addresses displaying suspicious behaviour. You can clear all IP addresses from the list or log the list with the buttons. For each IP, you also have the following three options: • block future connections from this IP address • clear the IP address from the list of suspicious IPs. This IP address will reappear on the list if it continues to display suspicious behavior • look up the domain name, if available, of the IP address listed in the suspected abuse or denial of service area.
Connection attempts	This section displays a count of the number of accepted and rejected attempts to connect to Internet Services, based on IP filters and the temporary IP block list, since the last update (typically one second).
SPAM email	This section displays a count of the total and incremental number of messages suspected of being SPAM according to the SMTP mail rules active on the system. The Incremental number refers to the number of messages that Internet Services suspected or rejected as spam since the last monitor refresh.
RBL statistics	This section displays the statistics of your RBL host connections and actions taken by Internet Services based on your RBL servers.
SURBL statistics	This section displays the statistics of your SURBL host connections and actions taken by Internet Services based on your SURBL servers.
Reset RBL/SURBL Statistics button	Clears the current RBL/SURBL statistics.

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Control - General tab

Tasking	Tasking allows you to do these things: • monitor how much load Internet Services is under (see if it's working hard) • set the operating system priority of the Internet Services process (devote more processing power to Internet Services) • record detailed tasking statistics to the console or log file for diagnostic purposes. Activity is logged to the Internet Services console (Windows) and, if Write Log to Disk is enabled, to the InetSvcs.LOG file (Windows) or to the fcisd.log file (Mac OS X, Linux). These files are located in the same location as the Internet Services executable file.
Task priority	Sets the priority of Internet Services. If you have Internet Services on a dedicated machine, you can set the priority to High without slowing down your system. If you have both the server and Internet Services running on the same machine, we recommend setting the priority to Medium for maximum system performance. Use Low to temporarily run Internet Services as a background process.
Shutdown Internet Services	Shuts down Internet Services remotely.
Force Internet Connection	Tells Internet Services to dial in and connect to the internet (regardless of its scheduling settings), if Internet Services is running in dial-up mode (for example, without a full time Internet connection).
Configuration	The Refresh button forces Internet Services to reload its configuration forms. Note FirstClass automatically reloads configuration forms every couple of minutes. Click this button if you prefer not to wait. Replaces Reload Config button. If you are watching the monitor, you will see the status lamp turn yellow when configuration is reloading. The log buttons may be required for troubleshooting. Tip We recommend you set logging levels low unless you require more information to identify a problem. If this is the case, only change the specific debugging categories relating to the problem or the logging may affect the performance of Internet Services.
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Control - Connections tab
Blackholed connections	Captures and delays connections from other systems which are known to be abusing the system by delivering SPAM email messages. This behaviour is considered a possible weapon in combating SPAM email in general by delaying systems which send these messages. The LED is black when the feature is disabled, green when it is enabled. The bar graph shows the number of connections IS is currently holding on to.
Log button	Creates a list of currently blackholed IP addresses (addresses which will get the blackhole treatment if they connect again) and writes that list to both the console and the log file
Flush button	Removes all IP addresses from the blackhole list
IP blacklist	Similar to the blackhole feature, except that instead of capturing and delaying connections from these IP addresses, addresses in this list are not allowed to connect at all
Log button	Creates a temporary list of currently blacklisted IP addresses and writes that list to both the console and the log file
Flush button	Removes all IP addresses from the blacklist
	Note Activity is logged to the console (except when running in daemon mode) or, if Write Log to Disk is enabled, to the InetSvcs.LOG file (Windows) or in the fcisd.log file (Mac OS X, Linux), located in the same location as the Internet Services executable file.
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DNS cache
Log button	Creates a list of DNS activity and writes that list to both the console and the log file
Flush button	Removes all content from the DNS cache
Directory Synchronization
Log Mail Aliases button	Dumps the contents of Internet Services' Internet aliases tables to the console/log
Log POP3 Import button	Dumps the contents of the POP3 clients list on users' Mail Import form to the console/log
	Note Activity is logged to the console (Windows) and, if Write Log to Disk is enabled, to the InetSvcs.LOG file (Windows) or to the fcisd.log file (Mac OS X, Linux), located in the same location as the Internet Services executable file.
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HTTP cache	This tab displays the statistics of Internet Services' HTTP cache.
Log button	Creates a list of HTTP activity and writes that list to both the console and the log file Note Activity is logged to the console (Windows) and, if Write Log to Disk is enabled, to the InetSvcs.LOG file (Windows) or to the fcisd.log file (Mac OS X, Linux), located in the same location as the Internet Services executable file.
Flush button	Removes all content from the HTTP cache

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Logging Levels tab

Use this tab to set log levels for debugging categories used in the Internet Services log file, InetSvcs.LOG file (Windows) or in the fcisd.log file (Mac OS X, Linux), located in the same location as the Internet Services executable file. For information on logging and debugging Internet Services and for an explanation of the debug categories, see Debugging and debug categories.

Clear Logging Levels button	Clears logging levels, returning the values to 0.
Write Log to Disk button	The LED is green when console messages are being written to a log file on disk, black when they are not. Pressing the button turns logging to disk on and off. Note Activity is logged to the console (Windows) and, if Write Log to Disk is enabled, to the InetSvcs.LOG file (Windows) or to the fcisd.log file (Mac OS X, Linux), located in the same location as the Internet Services executable file.
Insert Marker in Log button	Marks a position on the console or in the log file by inserting Internet Services Information. This option is useful if you have a very large log file and you want to separate information for easier reading.

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