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What if FortiManager and Anaylzer functions are split into separate machines ?
On FAZ I can see only “Local FortiAnalyzer” as a source of such System events. FortiManager system events are not even displayed in FortiView->Event->System.
Is there a way to get system events from FortiManager on separate machine to trigger an event via EventManager on (separated) FortiAnalyzer ?
Plotr,
I am having a hard time understanding what you are trying to do. Are you trying to log your FortiManager to the FortiAnalyzer and view all system events etc there? Let me know and I will see if I can help!
Hello Mike,
I have FortiManager (FMG) and FortiAnalyzer (FAZ) fuctionality running on separate machines.
My goal is to have all EventLogs of type System available on FAZ ( where such System logs from remote enforcement modules like FortiGate are already stored).
Then I want to have an EventManager Handler on FAZ to react on different administrator activity events – so far it only works on logs collected from FortiGate-s ( or eventually local FAZ , as there is a radio button selecting this source ).
I have set up such a handler , which is sensitive for admin login, configuration changes etc.
When one of the admins changes something via FMG, such activity is not seen by the EventHandler because FMG system logs are not stored in FAZ. I do not know if there is a way to deliver FMG system logs to FAZ like FortGate-s do , so information stored in them can be used in FAZ to trigger events.
Otherwise this EventHandler (on FAZ) has incomplete information ( it has admin activity from FortiGate-s but not from FMG) – and I cannot treat it as 100% reliable source of information about all entry points where admins can enter the system and for example make change of configuration.
This is needed for supervisory upon administrators activity.
Sorry for bad language and hard-understandable explanation.
Thank you in advance for your effort.
The FMG can log to a syslog device. The FortiAnalyzer will have minimal understanding of this. I would setup logging and alerts on the FortiManager itself most likely if you want alerts of changes etc. Either that or just have it dump to a SIEM like Splunk or ArcSight (i prefer splunk for cost of deployment etc). I reached out to my Fortinet SE just to verify and outside of SYSLOG there is no real “direct logging” to a FAZ from a FMG. I am sure someone out there has found a way to hack something up but I have not personally ever tried.