FortiGate-800 Installation and Configuration Guide Version 2.50

Logging and reporting

You can configure the FortiGate unit to log network activity from routine configuration changes and traffic sessions to emergency events. You can also configure the FortiGate unit to send alert email messages to inform system administrators about events such as network attacks, virus incidents, and firewall and VPN events.

This chapter describes:

Recording logs

Filtering log messages

Configuring traffic logging

Viewing logs saved to memory

Viewing and managing logs saved to the hard disk

Configuring alert email

Recording logs

You can configure logging to record logs to one or more of:

a computer running a syslog server,

a computer running a WebTrends firewall reporting server,

the FortiGate hard disk (if your FortiGate unit contains a hard disk),

the console.

For information about filtering the log types and activities that the FortiGate unit records, see “Filtering log messages” on page 313. For information about traffic logs, see “Configuring traffic logging” on page 314.

This section describes:

Recording logs on a remote computer

Recording logs on a NetIQ WebTrends server

Recording logs on the FortiGate hard disk

Recording logs in system memory

Log message levels

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