Networking — Info Tab

The Info tab is the live monitoring dashboard for the Networking section — connection status, bandwidth graphs, VPN and WAN-bundle quality, IP Shaping diagnostics, the IP Ban table, and recent network events. It is read-only; everything you see here is configured on the Settings tab.

The Info tab is divided into four sections, each in its own card. Let's walk through each one.

Inside Network

This section shows your LAN Connections. Click the expand arrow (▸) to open it. Three sub-tabs appear: Overview, ARP Monitor, and SNMP Monitor.

Overview

Each connection appears as a pill-shaped button with a status indicator:

Green smiley (happy face) — the connection is up and working normally.
Dark/grey icon — the connection is configured but not currently active. This could mean it's intentionally disabled, waiting for a trigger (e.g. a backup LTE that only activates when the primary fails), or misconfigured.

Click on a connection to see its bandwidth statistics: Line Load (current and historical) and Top 5 (which devices/services use the most bandwidth). On a multi-path resource (AIPT2 tunnel or WAN bundle), the Select Paths dropdown next to the resource selector lets you overlay several paths on the same Line Load graph to compare them — see View traffic analysis.

ARP Monitor

Status-icon convention varies by panel. Connection cards on the Overview sub-tab use smiley faces; the ARP and SNMP Monitor tables use ✓/✗ ticks — same meaning, different visuals.

Monitors devices on your network using ARP (Address Resolution Protocol — how devices discover each other on a local network). The ARP Monitor has three sub-tabs:

Sub-tab	What It Shows
Monitored	Devices you have chosen to watch (with status, history, and editable entries). Columns are documented below.
All Hosts	Every device the Abilis has seen on the network — whether you're monitoring it or not.
Unknown Hosts	Devices that appeared on the network but are not in your monitored list. Each unknown host has an Add To Monitor button so you can start watching it.

Columns on the Monitored sub-tab:

Column	What It Shows
Port	The Abilis interface (e.g. `Ip-1`) where this device was last seen.
IP Address	The device's current IP.
MAC Address	The device's hardware address — the unique 48-bit identifier burned into its network card.
Vendor	Manufacturer name, derived from the first three bytes of the MAC (the OUI prefix) looked up against the public IEEE vendor list. Blank or "Unknown" if the prefix isn't registered.
Description	Free-text label you set yourself.
State	✓ = device is responding to ARP probes (up). ✗ = no response (down).
Since	How long the device has been in its current state.
Max down	Tolerance window in seconds — how long the device may go silent before its State flips to ✗.

Three buttons at the top right:

Poll Interval — how often the Abilis scans for devices.
New Host Alert — opens the dialog below to be notified when a new device joins the network.
New + — manually add a device to the monitored list.

New Host Alert Configuration — choose what happens when a new device is detected.

The Alert Channel dropdown offers five options:

Option	What Happens
No	Alerts disabled.
1 - Sends e-mail	An email notification is sent to the configured address.
2 - Sends SMS	An SMS is sent (requires GSM/LTE hardware).
3 - Sends call	An automated phone call is made.
4 - Turns on DO	Activates a digital output configured via Automation hardware — e.g. flashes an LED, triggers a relay, or fires an external alarm.

Click Save to apply, or Cancel to close without saving.

SNMP Monitor

Monitors services on network devices using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). Each entry shows:

IP Address — the device being monitored
Service — the service name (e.g. PC1)
Result — last check result (e.g. DOWN)
State — green tick (up) or red cross (down)
Since — how long in current state
Alert — notification configuration

Same Poll Interval and New + buttons as ARP Monitor.

VPN Connections

If your Abilis has VPN tunnels configured (connecting to other Abilis units or remote offices — see Networking How-To → Set up a VPN tunnel), this section shows their status in real time. Click the expand arrow (▸) next to VPN Connections to open it.

Three view modes are available:

VPN Connections — VPN matrix view showing colour-coded quality bars over time. — VPN Connections — VPN matrix showing connection quality over four time periods.

View	What It Shows
VPN matrix	Colour-coded bars showing connection quality over time (5 seconds, last minute, last 15 minutes, last hour). This is the default and most useful view.
Map view	Geographic view of tunnel endpoints (if coordinates are configured).
List view	Simple text list of all tunnels with their status.

The colour legend for the VPN matrix:

Colour	Meaning
	Within norm — tunnel is working well
	Fair — minor quality reduction
	Less than fair — noticeable quality issues
	Almost unusable — serious problems
	Out of service — tunnel is down
	Backup — backup tunnel (standby)
	Inactive — tunnel is configured but not running

A healthy VPN should show solid green bars across all time periods. If you see yellow or red, the connection is degrading — check the internet quality on both sides.

Outside Network

Below the Inside Network panel, the Outside Network section shows the status of your WAN (internet-facing) connections — how the Abilis reaches the outside world.

WAN Bundles

A WAN Bundle groups one or more upstream transports — internet lines (DSL, fibre, LTE) and/or VPN tunnels that ride on top of them — into a single logical link. The Abilis can balance traffic across them and automatically fail over if one goes down.

Each bundle row (e.g. "Tunnel to AWS…", "Tunnel to MIX") shows:

Status icon — overall bundle health (green = good, dark/grey = inactive or not in use).
Summary text — e.g. "Line regular · Good for VoIP and realtime video · Trip time is good".

Click the expand arrow (▸) on a bundle to open its detail panel. Two view modes are available:

View	What It Shows
Basic view	A timeline of colour-coded quality bars for each IP resource (line) in the bundle, spanning from the past up to the current moment. Quickly spot when and where a problem occurred.
Advanced view	Detailed numeric statistics per line.

The colour legend for the quality bars:

Colour	Meaning
	Good — line is healthy
	Fair — minor quality reduction
	Poor — noticeable quality issues
	Inactive — line is not currently in use
	Local Fault — problem on the local side
	Network Error — problem in the network path

The Overall row at the bottom shows the combined health of the entire bundle. Individual lines above show their own resource names (e.g. Ip-242 FTTC_TIM, Ip-240 FTTC_80.6…) with a "+" icon you can click for per-line details.

If a single line shows intermittent yellow or red but the Overall bar stays green, the bundle is doing its job — traffic is being routed around the weaker line.

IP Shaping

IP Shaping limits the speed of "bandwidth-hungry" traffic so that other users get a fair share of the connection. It targets steady high-volume flows (a download, a backup) and leaves bursty human traffic alone (web browsing, email). The GUI describes it as: "IP Shaping aims to reduce the priority of traffic recognised as existing between two 'machines', in order to give higher priority to the work of humans."

When no traffic is currently being shaped, you will see: "No IP Shaping active at the moment".

When traffic IS being shaped, a Diagnostics section appears showing which connections are being throttled, with real-time graphs comparing actual usage to the allowed limits.

IP Ban

The Abilis automatically blocks IP addresses that make too many failed login attempts (brute-force protection). The banner reads: "Banned 0 attackers responsible for 0 malicious trials" (the numbers update in real time).

Click the expand arrow (▸) to see the ban list and the Unban Addresses button. Click Preferences to configure the banning behaviour:

IP Ban section expanded — showing the Unban Addresses button and Preferences panel with all configurable fields.

The Preferences panel shows:

Setting	Default	What It Controls
Ban hosts after	10 unsuccessful trials	How many failed login attempts trigger a ban.
Within an interval of	1440 minutes (24 hours)	The time window in which those attempts must occur.
Ban hosts for	10080 minutes (7 days)	How long the ban lasts.
Send an alert if the table capacity reaches 80%	☐ (off)	Warns you if the ban list is getting full.
Ban table capacity	3000	Maximum number of banned IPs.

Changing "Ban table capacity" requires a reboot — the rest of these fields apply on Save. Plan the change for outside business hours.

You can also customise these values per attacked port (e.g. stricter rules for SSH than for HTTPS) and maintain a whitelist of IP addresses that bypass IP Ban entirely. Both are CLI-only — see the v9.0 reference manual under keyword IPBAN preferences.

Click Save and apply all changes or Close.

Recent Events

A chronological feed of the latest network status changes. Each row shows:

Date — timestamp (e.g. 12/03/2026 14:22:11).
Resource — the network interface (e.g. (Eth-1)). Click the search icon to filter by resource name.
Information — what happened: "is ready" (interface came up) or "is initializing..." (interface is starting), among others.

If you see repeated "is initializing... / is ready" cycles in quick succession, the network interface may be unstable — check the physical cable connection.

Anteklab Technical Support Email: tem@antek.it
Tel: +39 0376 16262,27

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