Viewing and managing logs saved to the hard disk

Logging and reporting

 

 

4To view a specific line in the log, type a line number in the Go to line field and select

.

5To navigate through the log message pages, select Go to next page or Go to previous page .

Searching logs

To search log messages saved in system memory

1Go to Log&Report > Logging.

2Select Event Log, Attack Log, Antivirus Log, Web Filter Log, or Email Filter Log.

3Select to search the messages in the selected log.

4Select AND to search for messages that match all the specified search criteria.

5Select OR to search for messages that match one or more of the specified search criteria.

6Select either of the following search criteria:

Keyword

To search for any text in a log message. Keyword searching is

 

case-sensitive.

Time

To search log messages created during the selected year, month, day, and

 

hour.

7Select OK to run the search.

The web-based manager displays the messages that match the search criteria. You can scroll through the messages or run another search.

Note: After you run a search, if you want to display all log messages again, run another search but leave all the search fields blank.

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 from an active log

Deleting a saved log file

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