Category Archives: Logging

Syslog Filtering on FortiGate Firewall & Syslog-NG

We recommend sending FortiGate logs to a FortiAnalyzer as it produces great reports and great, usable information.  However sometimes, you…

By Manny Fernandez

April 27, 2020

Using Active Directory Groups to Control Web Content Policies

This is another question I get asked a lot.  When customers first deploy a Fortigate firewall and they have migrated…

By Manny Fernandez

September 9, 2019

Installing Observium to Monitor SNMP enabled devices

Observium is a fantastic solution to monitor network devices.  It has a map where you can enter the physical address…

By Manny Fernandez

June 4, 2019

Fortigate / Scrutinizer NetFlow Deployment

Today I had a customer talking to me about Netflow and the Fortigate.  To demonstrate the functionality, I decided to…

By Manny Fernandez

May 2, 2019

Fortigate in One-Arm Sniffer Mode

Not sure if you got the 'Featured Image' (One Arm and the nose as the 'sniffer') OK.  I am done…

By Manny Fernandez

March 21, 2019

FortiView Capabilities

A few years ago, I worked for a reseller of networking and security.  I created their managed security services practice.…

By Manny Fernandez

March 18, 2019

Understanding Fortigate Logging

In this blog post, we are going to analyze some log files from my Fortigate to describe the different sections…

By Manny Fernandez

March 13, 2019

Syslog Server running ‘rsyslog’

Although I run FortiSIEM on my home lab, I wanted to have a quick & dirty, low cost, simple solution…

By Manny Fernandez

December 7, 2017

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