Enabling disk logging on a FortiGate

Fortigate’s logging typically isn’t the best - but it’s bad when you have no logs at all, which seems to be the default. To enable logging on fortigate models with an internal SSD/HDD use the following command: config log disk setting set status enable You can now collect and view your logs in the Log & Report section. N.B. As of FortiOS 5.2 this has been disabled on all SMB class (100D and below) units....

December 2, 2013 Myles Gray

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