How to Use the ASM Activity Monitor

The Activity Monitor opens when you launch Automated Security Manager (ASM). It contains a log of ASM activities, and provides access to features that let you manage responses to network security threats.

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Setting ASM's Operation Mode

ASM can be fully enabled, completely disabled, or set to only search for and record network threats:

  • Click Disabled to set ASM to an inactive state. In this condition, ASM ignores events from the intrusion detection system and neither seeks out nor responds to the sources of network threats.
  • Click Search Only to set ASM to recognize security threats, identify their source ports, and record event information in the Activity Monitor, but not to respond.
  • Click Search and Respond to enable all of ASM's features. In this state, ASM is fully active; threats are recognized, sources identified, and responses (actions) are applied.

Confirming Actions for Selected Log Entries

Actions configured for Manual Confirmation Required allow you to examine specific events before taking an action:

  1. Select one or more events from the Activity Monitor.
  2. Click Confirm Response to apply the configured actions.

Undo Action

You can reverse the most recent actions on selected event/action entries in the Activity Monitor:

  1. Select one or more events from the Activity Monitor.
  2. Click Undo Selected Actions.

Delete Table Entries

You can remove selected event/action entries from the Activity Monitor:

  1. Select one or more events from the Activity Monitor.
  2. Click Delete Table Entry. The entries are removed without further confirmation.

Clean Up Incidents

You can delete incidents from the Activity Monitor based on incident status.

  1. Click the Clean Up Incidents button below the Activity Monitor table. The Clean Up Incidents window opens.
  2. Use the checkboxes to select the statuses of the incidents you want to delete. For more information on each status, see the Icon/Status section of the Activity Monitor Help topic.
  3. Click Apply.

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