Logging and reporting

Viewing and managing logs saved to the hard disk

 

 

Viewing logs

Log messages are listed with the most recent message at the top.

To view the active or saved logs

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 was 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

To search the active log or 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:

Keyword

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

 

case-sensitive.

Source

To search for any source IP address.

Destination

To search for any destination IP address.

Time

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

 

hour.

8Select 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.

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