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Viewing and managing logs saved to the hard disk
If your FortiGate unit contains a hard disk for recording logs, you can use the following
procedures to view, search and maintain logs:
Viewing logs
Searching logs
Downloading a log file to the management computer
Deleting all messages in an active log
Deleting a saved log file

Viewing logs

Log messages are listed with the most recent message at the top. You can view the
active or saved logs using the following procedure:
1Go to Log&Report > Logging.
2Select Traffic Log, Event Log, Attack Log, Antivirus Log, Web Filter Log, or Email Filter
Log.
The web-based manager lists all saved logs of the selected type, with the active log at
the top of the list. For each log, the list shows the date and time at which an entry wa s
last added to the log, the size of the log file, and its name.
3To view a log file, select View .
4The web-based manager displays the messages in the selected log.
5You can set the number of log messages to view on a single page to 30, 50 or 1000.
You can scroll through the log entries.
6To view a specific line in the log file, type a line number in the Go to line field and
select .
7To navigate through the log message pages, select Go to next page or Go to
previous page .
8To search the messages in the log file that you are viewing, select .

Searching logs

Use the following procedure to search the active log or any of the saved log files:
1Go to Log&Report > Logging.
2Select Traffic Log, Event Log, Attack Log, Antivirus Log, Web Filter Log, or Email Filter
Log.
3To view a log file, select View .
4Select to search the messages in the log file that you are viewing.
5Select AND to search for messages that match all the specified search criteria.
6Select OR to search for messages that match one or more of the specified search
criteria.
7Select one or more of the following search criteria: