FortiLog Administration Guide Version 1.6
Introduction
FortiLog units are network appliances that provide integrated log collection, analysis tools and data storage. Detailed log reports provide historical as well as current analysis of network and email activity to help identify security issues and reduce network misuse and abuse.
FortiLog units operate in one of two modes:
•In Active mode as a log collection and analysis tool to collect logs from FortiGate and FortiMail devices and generate reports based on log data.
•In Passive mode as a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server to act as an additional storage device.
The models in the FortiLog family:
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Figure 1: FortiLog models
FortiLog-400
FortiLog-100
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FortiLog-800
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