Viewing and managing logs saved to the hard disk

Logging and reporting

 

 

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.

Downloading a log file to the management computer

You can download log files to the management computer as plain text files or comma- separated value (CSV) files. After downloading, you can view the text file with a text editor or the CSV file using a spreadsheet program.

To download log files

1Go to Log&Report > Logging.

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

3Select Download for the log file to the management computer

4Select a format for the log file:

Select Download file in the normal format to download the log messages to a text file. Each line of the text file consists of a log message. The messages are formatted the same way as they appear on the web-based manager.

Select Download file in CSV format to download the log messages to a text file in CSV format. In this format, a comma is added between each field in each message. If you open this file in a spreadsheet, each message field appears in a separate column.

5Select Save.

Deleting all messages from an active log

To delete all messages from an active log

1Go to Log&Report > Logging.

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

3Select Empty Log .

4Select OK to delete the messages.

Deleting a saved log file

To delete a saved log file

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 delete a saved log file, select Delete .

4Select OK to delete the log file.

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