Newbie from ZoneAlarm..How do I?

two questions:
I am trying Norton Internet Security 2009 from ZoneAlarm Suite and need a resolve to the following:

1.  How do I know that the Firewall is on and the internet is blocked?

 

 

2.Secondly, how do I get notices of a problem so I can decide the action and not Norton to take an automatic action without my intervention on issues rasied during a scan ?