McAfee SG310 Administration Manual page 357

System menu features
Diagnostics menu
From the System menu, click Diagnostics > System Log tab > Local Syslog tab. The Local System
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Log Settings page appears
Figure 370 System Log Settings
Select a default filtering level from the Filter Level list. Available options include:
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• Absolutely Everything (most verbose)
• Everything but Debug
• Notices, Warnings, and Errors
• Errors and Warnings
• All Error Conditions
• Emergency, Alerts, and Critical Errors
• Emergency and Alerts Errors
• Emergency Errors only (least verbose)
[Optional] Every message recorded in the System Log includes a basic time stamp. To force a more
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precise and standardized time stamp with every message, select the Include extended ISO date
checkbox.
To increase the size of this buffer to retain more messages when tracking down issues, enter an increased
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integer value in the Maximum buffer size field. This field specifies the maximum size of the local buffer
that contains syslog messages.
Caution: Make sure the value you enter does not exceed the maximum size of the /var/log filesystem
available for your model as indicated in
of the available space to accommodate rotating system logs.
Click Submit.)
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Table 38 Temporary storage space by model (
Models
SG720
SG565, SG580, SG640
SG560
SG300
Enabling remote system logging
Use this procedure to redirect the system log messages to a remote system. System log messages can be
sent to a remote syslog server, which allows you to keep system log messages permanently.
Prerequisite: Configure the remote server to accept the logs.
• If the server is a UNIX/Linux machine, it should already provide a remote logging daemon. Information
about configuring remote logging should be available from your vendor.
McAfee UTM Firewall 4.0.4 Administration Guide
(Figure 370).
Table 38. For best results, keep the log size approximately half the size
/var/log)
Maximum size
This model have a dynamic /var filesystem size with a maximum size of 128 MB. This
space is possibly shared with Web cache and antivirus if enabled.
These models have a dynamic /var filesystem size with a maximum size of 33 MB. This
space is possibly shared with Web cache and antivirus if enabled.
512 K fixed size.
128 K fixed size.
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