Queries on Packet Captures.

[Satyak]

Hi Friends,

I have few queries on the Packet captures and traffic logs

1. If we are pinging from the management ip to the gateway ip i am able to ping but how can i see those logs on the GUI of the firewall.

According to my understanding the Traffic logs which we see completely rely on the data plane and the test which i am doing is on the management so my question is that if i need to see those logs i need to take TCP dump...  apart from that is there any way.

2. In Packet capture i set the filter source and destination of user and sever internal ip's in bi-directional way.

My question is that the packet capture should capture only the traffic of the filter's which i have set.... if there is no communication happening no packets should be captured.

This is how packet capture works or even though the communication is not happening packet will get captured...

Any inputs on these queries.

Thanks and Regards

Satya Kalyan