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Logging and reporting

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Logging and reporting

This document provides detailed information that explains how to take advantage of your FortiGate’s ability to log and report activity, whether you need to monitor network stability, log traffic offsite for security reasons, provide bandwidth usage reports, or one of many other possible functions.

Logging is an integral component of the FortiGate system. Logging allows you to view the activity and status of the traffic passing through your network, and monitor for anomalies.

Note

Performance statistics are not logged to disk. Performance statistics can be received by a syslog server or by FortiAnalyzer.

Before you begin

Before you begin using this guide, please ensure that:

  • You have administrative access to the GUI and/or CLI.
  • The FortiGate unit is integrated into your network.
  • The operation mode has been configured.
  • The system time, DNS settings, administrator password, and network interfaces have been configured.
  • Firmware, FortiGuard Antivirus and FortiGuard Antispam updates are completed.

While using the instructions in this guide, note that administrators are assumed to be super_admin administrators unless otherwise specified. Some restrictions will apply to other administrators.

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Logging and reporting

This document provides detailed information that explains how to take advantage of your FortiGate’s ability to log and report activity, whether you need to monitor network stability, log traffic offsite for security reasons, provide bandwidth usage reports, or one of many other possible functions.

Logging is an integral component of the FortiGate system. Logging allows you to view the activity and status of the traffic passing through your network, and monitor for anomalies.

Note

Performance statistics are not logged to disk. Performance statistics can be received by a syslog server or by FortiAnalyzer.

Before you begin

Before you begin using this guide, please ensure that:

  • You have administrative access to the GUI and/or CLI.
  • The FortiGate unit is integrated into your network.
  • The operation mode has been configured.
  • The system time, DNS settings, administrator password, and network interfaces have been configured.
  • Firmware, FortiGuard Antivirus and FortiGuard Antispam updates are completed.

While using the instructions in this guide, note that administrators are assumed to be super_admin administrators unless otherwise specified. Some restrictions will apply to other administrators.