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Viewing and managing logs saved to the hard disk Logging and reporting
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 in an active log
• Deleting a saved log file
Viewing logs
Log messages are listed with the most recent message at the top. You can view the
active or saved logs using the following procedure:
1 Go to Log&Report > Logging.
2 Select 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.
3 To view a log file, select View .
4 The web-based manager displays the messages in the selected log.
5 You 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.
6 To view a specific line in the log file, type a line number in the Go to line field and
select .
7 To navigate through the log message pages, select Go to next page or Go to
previous page .
8 To search the messages in the log file that you are viewing, select .
Searching logs
Use the following procedure to search the active log or any of the saved log files:
1 Go to Log&Report > Logging.
2 Select Traffic Log, Event Log, Attack Log, Antivirus Log, Web Filter Log, or Email Filter
Log.
3 To view a log file, select View .
4 Select to search the messages in the log file that you are viewing.
5 Select AND to search for messages that match all the specified search criteria.
6 Select OR to search for messages that match one or more of the specified search
criteria.
7 Select one or more of the following search criteria:
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