Log View – FortiManager 5.2

FortiMail logs

The FortiManager unit can receive logs from a FortiMail. FortiMail logs can be viewed in FortiView > Log View. Logs can be viewed in both historical view and in both formatted and raw log views.

FortiMail logs

The following information is displayed:

History logs The following columns are supported by default for event logs: Date/Time, Device

ID, Direction, Mailer, From To, Virus, Client Name, Destination IP, Disposition,

Classifier, Session ID, Subject, Message Length, Resolved, Policy ID, and Domain. Click the log details icon to the left of the limit field to view additional log information.

Click the column header to set column settings. Select More Columns for additional columns.

Right-click the column field to apply a search filter. Not all columns support this feature.

Event logs The following columns are supported by default for event logs: Date/Time, Device ID, Sub Type, Session ID, and Message. Click the log details icon to the left of the limit field to view additional log information.

Click the column header to set column settings. Select More Columns for additional columns.

Right-click the column field to apply a search filter. Not all columns support this feature.

AntiVirus logs The following columns are supported by default for event logs: Date/Time, Device ID, From, To, Source, Message, and Session ID. Click the log details icon to the left of the limit field to view additional log information.

Click the column header to set column settings. Select More Columns for additional columns.

Right-click the column field to apply a search filter. Not all columns support this feature.

Email Filterlogs The following columns are supported by default for event logs: Date/Time, Device ID, From, To, Message, Client Name, Subject, Destination IP, and Session ID. Click the log details icon to the left of the limit field to view additional log information.

Click the column header to set column settings. Select More Columns for additional columns.

Right-click the column field to apply a search filter. Not all columns support this feature.

FortiManager logs

The FortiManager unit can receive logs from a FortiManager. FortiManager logs can be viewed in FortiView > Log View. Logs can be viewed in both historical view and in both formatted and raw log views.

FortiManager logs

The following information is displayed:

Event logs The following columns are supported by default for event logs: Date/Time, Device ID, Sub Type, Level, User, and Message. Click the log details icon to the left of the limit field to view additional log information.

Click the column header to set column settings. Select More Columns for additional columns.

Right-click the column field to apply a search filter. Not all columns support this feature.


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