FirePlotter description
FirePlotter - A real-time session monitor for Cisco and FortiNet firewalls

FirePlotter will show you in real-time the traffic that is flowing through your internet connection.

FirePlotter is a real-time session monitor or connection monitor for your Cisco or FortiNet firewall.

FirePlotter supports all Cisco PIX/ASA Firewalls and FortiNet FortiGate Firewalls.

FirePlotter provides tabular listings and summary of sessions by Service (HTTP, FTP etc), Destination IP, Source IP and more.

Here are some key features of "FirePlotter":

· FirePlotter provides true real-time session monitoring of the sessions passing through your firewall. Click to see a brief (3 minute) FirePlotter Demonstration.
· FirePlotter lets you easily:
Find out why your internet connection seems to have slowed down
Identify unfamiliar connections
See Bandwidth Hoggers
Monitor undesirable Website Usage
check that email is flowing in and out
check that VPNs are up
· Helpful tabular listings and summary of real-time traffic by column headings: Direction: Inbound/Outbound, Source IP Address, Source Port, Destination IP Address, Destination Port/Service (e.g. HTTP, SMTP, FTP...), IP Protocol (e.g. TCP, UDP, ICMP, PPTP/GRE), Number of Sessions, In Bytes/s, Out Bytes/s, Cumulative In Bytes, Cumulative Out Bytes
· Destination Port/Service colours and descriptions fully customisable.
· Clear meaningful graphical representation of service sessions by bandwidth usage.
· Graphical and tabular auto-trace of highest bandwidth sessions.
· Double-click drill down to analyse in more traffic detail
· Auto DNS & Name resolution of IP addresses
· Installed and operational in less than a minute.
· Current version gathers session data using Telnet protocol. SSH (SecureShell) to be soon supported.
· Supports all Cisco PIX/ASA Firewalls (v6.x and v7.x) and FortiNet FortiGate Firewalls (v2.8 and v3.0).
· FirePlotter can be configured to auto-connect to your firewall when you start the application.
· FirePlotter has other surprise useful features and abilities you can discover for yourself


Limitations:

· 14 days trial