Fortinet 3.0 MR7 manual Device Name, Device ID, Mode, Member IDs, Description

Device Manually adding a device

Figure 3: Configuring a device

Device Type	Select the device type.
	The type is automatically pre-selected if you are adding an
	unregistered device from the device list, or if you are editing an
	existing device.
	Other device options vary by the device type.
Device Name	Enter a name to represent the FortiGate unit, such as FG-1000-
	1.This can be any descriptive name that you want assign to it, and
	does not need to be its host name.
	The device name is automatically pre-entered if you are adding a
	FortiClient installation.
IP Address	Enter the IP address of the device.
	This option appears only if Device Type is Syslog.
Device ID	Enter the device ID. Device IDs are usually the serial number of
	the device, and usually appear on the dashboard of the device’s
	web-based manager.
	The device ID is automatically pre-entered if you are adding an
	unregistered device from the device list, or if you are editing an
	existing device.
	This option does not appear if Device Type is Syslog or FortiClient.
Mode	Select the high availability (HA) mode of the device. If you are
	adding a single unit, select Standalone. If you are adding an HA
	cluster, select HA, then add the device ID of each unit in the
	cluster to Member IDs.
	This option appears only if Device Type is FortiGate or
	FortiManager.
Member IDs	For each member in the HA cluster, enter the device ID of the
	member and select Add.
	This option appears only if Mode is HA.
Description	Enter any additional information on the device. Description
	information appears when you hover the mouse over a device
	name in the device list.

Allocated Disk Space (MB)

Enter the amount of FortiAnalyzer hard disk space allocated to the device’s log and content messages, including quarantined files. For more information about on quarantine file disk quota, see “Viewing quarantined files” on page 131.

The allocated space should be at least 10 times the log rolling size for the Log and Content Archive. For example, if you set the log and content archive log file roll size to 50 MB, allocate at least 500 MB of disk space for the device.

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