FirePlotter, a Nice tool for monitoring Cisco Pix/ASA's and Fortigates!

I stumbled (well, was pointed to) this great tool:







For monitoring my Fortigate Firewalls! Now, I love my Fortigates, they are a great price point for Unified Threat and Decent Firewalling Rules, but the interface and monitoring tools built in could be LOADS better! Like anything it takes a while to get used to!

This FirePlotter tool has taken alot of pain out of monitoring traffic, there is a free and one year subscription paid version of the tool. The free tool will let you monitor some basic settings, such as Ping, FTP, SMTP, DNS, HTTP, PoP3, HTTPS, and RDP. This is great is you are searching for a Rogue Zombie on your network trying to flood e-mail's! (You ARE restricting all machine except for your designated mail Server to send traffice on Port 25, correct?)

The Paid version will allow for additional views, all traffic to be monitored and allows basic commands to be performed on the firewall such as Ping.

If you have a Fortigate or Pix/ASA, check this tool out, the paid version rocks, the free version is worth more than you pay for it!