Status¶

The Status menu entries display status information and logs for various system components and services.

Captive Portal:

When Captive Portal is enabled, this entry shows user and voucher status.

CARP (failover):

Shows the status of CARP IP addresses on this firewall, such as MASTER/BACKUP state for each CARP VIP. Also has controls for HA maintenance mode.

See CARP Status.

Dashboard:

A shortcut back to the main page of the firewall GUI, which displays general system information.

See Dashboard.

DHCP leases:

Shows a list of all IPv4 DHCP leases assigned by this firewall and provides controls based on those leases, such as adding static mappings.

See DHCPv4 Leases.

DHCPv6 leases:

Shows a list of all IPv6 DHCP leases assigned by this firewall.

See DHCPv6 Status.

DNS Resolver:

Shows the contents of the DNS resolver infrastructure cache.

See DNS Resolver Status.

Filter Reload:

Shows the status of the last filter reload request, including active reload actions. Also provides a means to force a filter reload, and to force an XMLRPC configuration sync when HA is configured.

See Filter Reload Status.

Gateways:

Shows the status of gateways, and gateway groups for multiple WANs.

See Gateway Status.

Interfaces:

Shows the hardware status for network interfaces, equivalent to using ifconfig on the console.

See Interface Status.

IPsec:

Shows the status of any configured IPsec tunnels.

See IPsec Status.

Monitoring:

Shows graphed data for system statistics such as bandwidth used, CPU usage, firewall states, etc.

See Monitoring Graphs.

NTP:

Shows the status of the Network Time Protocol server daemon.

See NTP Daemon Status.

OpenVPN:

Shows the status of any configured OpenVPN instances.

See OpenVPN Server and Client Status.

Queues:

Shows the status of traffic shaping queues.

See ALTQ Traffic Shaper Queue Monitoring.

Services:

Shows the status of system and package service daemons.

See Service Status.

System logs:

Shows logs from the system and system services such as the firewall, DHCP, VPNs, etc.

See System Logs.

Traffic graph:

Displays a dynamic real-time traffic graph for an interface.

See Traffic Graphs.

UPnP IGD & PCP:

Shows a list of any currently active UPnP IGD & PCP port forwards. This entry is only present when the firewall contains more than one interface.

See UPnP IGD & PCP Status.

Wireless:

Shows a list of any currently available wireless networks in range, along with signal levels. This menu entry is only present if the firewall has an assigned wireless interface.

See Wireless Status.