Customizing Logging And Notification By Service Or Option - Watchguard Firebox X1000 User Manual

Customizing Logging and Notification by Service or Option

Customizing Logging and Notification by
Service or Option
The WatchGuard Firebox System allows you to create cus-
tom logging and notification properties for each service
and blocking option. You can fine-tune your security pol-
icy, logging only those events that require your attention
and limiting notification to those of truly high priority.
To make logging and notification configuration easier, ser-
vices, blocking categories, and packet-handling options
share an identical dialog box, as shown in the following
figure. Therefore, once you learn the controls for one type
of service, you can easily configure the remainder.
You can define the following:
Category
Enter it in the log
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The event types that can be logged by the service or
option. This list changes depending on the service
or option. Click the event name to display and set
its properties.
Select this checkbox to log the event type; clear it to
disable logging for the event type. Because the
Firebox must perform domain name resolution,
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