Checking the current number of connections

network

Checking the current number of connections can be done
with the command fw tab -t connections -s

Especially when you do a Full Connectivity Update in a ClusterXL environment, you need to verify that both members have nearly the same amount of connections.

When I did this in the past, I opened SSH connections to both nodes and issued the command.

Thanks to the presentation of Yasushi Kono yesterday I now know (again?), that this command can be issued also on the management server to get values from both firewall nodes. Just add the target(s) as option to the command:

[Expert@fwm]# fw tab -t connections -s fw1 fw2
HOST NAME ID #VALS #PEAK #SLINKS
fw1 connections 58 137867 250322 508451
fw2 connections 8158 137560 250310 507258

Much more comfortable…