Viewing VPN Tunnels

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You can view a list of currently established VPN tunnels. VPN tunnels are created and closed as follows:

Remote Access VPN sites configured for Automatic Login and Site-to-Site VPN Gateways
A tunnel is created whenever your computer attempts any kind of communication with a computer at the VPN site. The tunnel is closed when not in use for a period of time.

Note: Although the VPN tunnel is automatically closed, the site remains open, and if you attempt to communicate with the site, the tunnel will be reestablished.
Remote Access VPN sites configured for Manual Login
A tunnel is created whenever your computer attempts any kind of communication with a computer at the VPN site, after you have manually logged in to the site. All open tunnels connecting to the site are closed when you manually log out.

To view VPN tunnels

Click Reports in the main menu, and click the Tunnels tab.
The VPN Tunnels page appears with a table of open VPN tunnels.

The VPN Tunnels page includes the information described in the following table.
To resize a column, drag the relevant column divider right or left.
To refresh the table, click Refresh.

See Also

VPN Tunnels Page Fields

This field…	Displays…
Type	The currently active security protocol (IPSEC).
Source	The IP address or address range of the entity from which the tunnel originates. The entity's type is indicated by an icon. See VPN Tunnel Icons.
Destination	The IP address or address range of the entity to which the tunnel is connected. The entity's type is indicated by an icon. See VPN Tunnel Icons.
Security	The type of encryption used to secure the connection, and the type of Message Authentication Code (MAC) used to verify the integrity of the message. This information is presented in the following format: Encryption type/Authentication type. In addition, if IPSec compression is enabled for the tunnel, this field displays the icon. Note: All VPN settings are automatically negotiated between the two sites. The encryption and authentication schemes used for the connection are the strongest of those used at the two sites. Your UTM-1 appliance supports AES, 3DES, and DES encryption schemes, and MD5 and SHA authentication schemes.
Established	The time at which the tunnel was established. This information is presented in the format hh:mm:ss, where: hh=hours mm=minutes ss=seconds

VPN Tunnels Icons

This icon…	Represents…
	This gateway
	A network for which an IKE Phase-2 tunnel was negotiated
	A Remote Access VPN Server
	A Site-to-Site VPN Gateway
	A remote access VPN user
	An L2TP user