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Hi. Is there a default profile or config script that would allow the logging of sessions and events from a Fortigate firewall please? Our FG doesn't have a hard drive which means it can't store as much as we'd like in its memory based log.

We have MS SQL Express running on a server so it would be handy if WinSyslog can set itself up without too much work on our part. (We're not lazy, just involved with lots of other stuff going on). Which version of the software would we need to achieve this?

Thanks in advance.
Gary

Hi,

for a start you can install the trial version of WinSyslog, and setup File Logging. Don't forget to restart the WiNSyslog Service after this.
Then point your Firewall device to log to the WinSyslog syslog server, and it should start collecting the syslog messages from your Firewall.

When you have the time, you can look into logging the syslog messages into a database like MS Express.
Or if you want to go further use phpLogCon to review and search through logfiles, this article might help then:
http://www.winsyslog.com/Common/en/Arti ... _mysql.php

best regards,
Andre Lorbach

Thank you, Andre. I'll give that a go.

Gary.