Add a gateway
- Go to Routing > Gateways and click Add.
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Enter gateway details.
- Name
- Enter the name of the gateway.
- Gateway IP
- Enter the IP address of the gateway.
- Interface
- Select the outgoing interface for the gateway.
- Default NAT policy
- Select the default NAT policy to be used for the gateway.
- Select None, if NAT policy should not be applied on the gateway.
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Enter health check details
- Health check
- Click to enable health check for monitoring the gateway and specify the parameters based on the description shown below.
- Interval (in seconds)
- Specify the time interval in seconds after which the health should
be monitored.
Acceptable range: 5 to 65535 seconds
Default: 60 seconds
- Timeout (in seconds)
- Specify the time interval in seconds within which the gateway must
respond.
Acceptable range: 1 to 10 seconds
Default: 2 seconds
- Retries
- Specify the number of tries to probe the health of the gateway,
after which the gateway will be declared unreachable.
Acceptable range: 1 to 10
Default: 3
- Mail notification
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Enable to receive an email notification if there is a change in gateway status.
Note You need to configure mail server notification settings for the device to send and receive alert emails. - Monitoring condition
- Protocol:From the drop-down list, select the communication protocol, such as TCP or PING (ICMP). Select the protocol depending on the service to be tested for the gateway’s health.
- Port: For TCP communication, specify the port number for communication.
- IP address: Specify the IP address of the computer or the network device which is permanently running or most reliable.
- Operator:
- AND - All the conditions must be satisfied for the gateway to be considered alive.
- OR - At least one condition must be satisfied for the gateway to be considered alive.
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A protocol request is sent to the given IP address. If the IP address does not respond to the request within the time-out interval then given number of retries are attempted. If it still does not respond then the device considers the IP address as unreachable.