Hosts
Hosts provides a view of all current "hosts" or unique IP address on the local network(s).
Each row represents a single a host (unique IP address) that has been seen on any LAN interface.
As NG Firewall scans and processes network traffic, the platform and many of the apps will save information about a host on the network. This information is stored in the "Host Table" and the Hosts view provides a view into the host table.
Controls
The host view by default shows all hosts and some basic information about each session. To view all the information for a session click on the session and all attributes are displayed in the property grid on the right side.
- Refresh refreshes the grid with the current active sessions.
- Auto Refresh toggles automatic refreshing of the grid.
- Reset View resets the view to the default view. Any changes to the default view are saved in your local browser session.
- Filter provides the ability to quickly filter all sessions my many key attributes.
More controls can be access by mousing over any column head and using the drowdown menu on the column header.
- Sort Ascending sorts the selected column in ascending order.
- Sort Descending sorts the selected column in descending order.
- Columns allows the removal or addition of columns to the current view.
- Filter provides a way to filter current data on this column with the provided value.
Columns
Columns
Property Description Address The IP address of this Host MAC Address The MAC address of this Host if it is known MAC Vendor The Vendor of the MAC address of this Host if known Interface The interface on which this Host was last seen Creation Time The creation time of this Host entry Last Access Time The last time an app or the platform accessed this Host entry Last Session Time The last time this host attempted to create a session Last Completed TCP Session Time The last time this host successfuly completed a TCP session to a WAN address Entitled Status False if this host is not entitled to premium functionality because the limit is exceeded True otherwise Active True if this host is considered "active," False otherwise HTTP User Agent The HTTP User Agent of this host (according to a recent HTTP request) Captive Portal Authenticated True if this Host is authenticated with Captive Portal (at least one) Tags The tags of this Host Tags String The tags of this Host Hostname The official Hostname of this host Hostname Source The source of the official Hostname of this host Hostname (DHCP) The hostname of this host according to DHCP (Hosts often specify their hostname when retrieving a DHCP lease) Hostname (DNS) The hostname of this host according to reverse DNS Hostname (Device) The hostname of this host's MAC address according to Devices Hostname (Device Last Known) The last known hostname of this host's MAC address according to Devices Hostname (OpenVPN) The hostname according to OpenVPN Hostname (Reports) The hostname according to the Name Map in Reports Hostname (Directory Connector) The hostname according to Directory Connector Username The official Username associated with this host Username Source The source of the official Username Username (Directory Connector) The username according to Directory Connector Username (Captive Portal) The username according to Captive Portal Username (Device) The username of this host's MAC address according to Devices Username (OpenVPN) The username according to OpenVPN Username (IPsec VPN) The username according to IPsec VPN Quota Size The size of this host's quota (in bytes) Quota Remaining The amount of quota remaining (in bytes) Quota Issue Time The original issue time of this host's quota Quota Expiration Time The expiration time of this host's quota Refill Quota Refill Quota action will refill this Host's quota Drop Quota Drop Quota action will remove this Host's quota