WatchGuard Technologies SSL VPN manual Forwarding System Messages to a Syslog Server

Viewing and Downloading System Message Logs

3Click Logging/Settings.

4Under Gateway Log, click Display Logging Window.

The log for today’s date is displayed.

To display the log for a prior date, select the date in the Log Archive list and click View Log.

5By default, the log displays all entries. The log can be filtered as described below:

•To filter the log by user or applications, under Log Filter, select Admins, Apps, or Users.

•To filter the log by priority, under Log Filter, select LO, MED, HI, or CRIT.

•The filters that you select are treated as logical ORs. Thus, for each selected filter, all matches for the filter are displayed.

6To download a log:

•Select a log in the Log Archive list and next to Selected Log File, click Download. The log filename defaults to yyyymmdd.log.

•To download all of the logs, next to All Log Files, click Download. The filename defaults to

log_archive_yyyymmdd.tgz. To download logs from the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway, you must have a data compression utility, such as WinZip, installed on your computer. The logs are downloaded as .tgz files and that data must be extracted. After the file downloads, it can be unzipped to access the individual log files.

Forwarding System Messages to a Syslog Server

The Firebox SSL VPN Gateway archives system messages, as described in “Viewing and Downloading System Message Logs” on page 137. You can also have the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway forward system messages to a syslog server.

To forward Firebox SSL VPN Gateway system messages to a syslog server

1Click the VPN Gateway Cluster tab and then click the Logging/Settings tab.

2 Under Syslog Settings, in Server, type the IP address of the syslog server. 3 In Facility, select the syslog facility level.

4In Broadcast Interval (mins), type a broadcast frequency in minutes. If the broadcast frequency is set to 0, logging is continuous.

5Click Submit.

Viewing the W3C-Formatted Request Log

The Firebox SSL VPN Gateway logs incoming and outgoing HTTP requests in the W3C extended log for- mat. You can analyze the log by using a conventional log file analysis tool.

The log contains the following fields::

Field	Description
date	Date of access, specified in GMT and formatted as YYYY-MM-DD
time	Time of access, specified in GMT and in 24-hour format, HH:MM:SS.
c-ip	Client IP address.
cs-method	The client-to-Firebox SSL VPN Gateway request method, either GET or POST.
sc-method	The Firebox SSL VPN Gateway-to-client request method, either GET or POST.

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