Syslogd on FortiOS 5.0.4

Again, Fortigate’s documentation falls down at the simplest of things, this time, syslogging - To get your Fortigate to log to a syslogger (like Kiwi/Splunk) you’ll need to go in via the CLI as they have removed this option from the GUI as of FortiOS v5.0. Log in via shell and enter the following: config log syslogd setting set status enable set server [ip.or.dns-name.here] end I have seen where people say you need to explicitly:...

September 18, 2013 Myles Gray