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Adding a FortiGate unit

Unknown devices connecting to the FortiAnalyzer unit

Adding a FortiGate unit
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Select what the FortiAnalyzer unit should do with the connection request for an
unknown device. These devices include FortiGate units running FortiOS 2.8 or
lower, FortiManager or Syslog servers.
To configure unregistered device options
1 Go to Device > All.
2 Select Unregistered Device Options.
3 Select from the following options for either known devices (FortiGate 2.8,
FortiManager) or unknown devices (syslog):
Ignore all unknown unregistered
devices
Add unknown unregistered device
to unregistered table, but ignore
data
Add unknown unregistered
devices to unregistered table, and
store up to N MB of data
Before adding a FortiGate unit to the FortiAnalyzer unit, you must first configure
the FortiGate unit to send log packets to the FortiAnalyzer unit. To configure the
FortiGate unit to send log packets to the FortiAnalyzer unit, on the FortiGate unit
go to Log&Report > Log Config.
For full details on configuring a FortiGate unit, see the Log&Report chapter of the
FortiGate Administration Guide
When the FortiAnalyzer unit initially receives message packets from a FortiGate
unit, the FortiAnalyzer unit adds the FortiGate unit to the list of unregistered
devices.
To register a FortiGate unit to send log messages to the FortiAnalyzer unit
1 Go to Device > All
2 Select Unregistered from the Show list, and select Add from the Action column.
or
Select Add Device.
3 Set the following options.
Device Type
Device Name
All incoming device requests are not accepted and
the FortiAnalyzer will not add them to the
unregistered devices list.
Add the device to the unregistered devices list for
future configuration and addition to the FortiAnalyzer
unit, but do not save the incoming log packets to the
hard disk.
Add the device to the unregistered devices list for
future configuration and addition to the FortiAnalyzer
unit, and save the log packets to the hard disk, but
only to a defined amount of disk space.
or the FortiGate Online Help.
Select FortiGate from the device list. It is selected by default when
selecting a FortiGate unit from the unregistered list.
Enter a name to represent the FortiGate unit. For example,
FortiGate-300A.
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