topic Re: Log forwarding - Local on Gateway or Panorama in General Topics

Log forwarding - Local on Gateway or Panorama

KumarRamalinga — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:58:02 GMT

Hello - I have Firewalls configured with Log Forwarding to Panorama. The question is, do the traffic logs of the Firewall Gateway keeps the copy of the logs and send another copy to Panorama or does it have only one copy forwarded to Panorama

Can i configure to forward all the traffic logs of the Firewall to the Panorama and not to keep local copy in the Firewall?

Thanks RB

Re: Log forwarding - Local on Gateway or Panorama

MichaelMelone — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:50:12 GMT

I believe this can be done not setting a log action on a security policy, but enabling the log forwarding option. Typically i have local logs on the firewall as well as the copy send to panorama. I believe the checkbox for "log session start or end" controls the local logging while the fowarding option will do panorama or syslog.

Re: Log forwarding - Local on Gateway or Panorama

reaper — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:31:19 GMT

Hi @KumarRamalinga

no this is not possible

the logs are first generated and collected by the firewall process (the log is started at the beginning of the session and only completed at the end of the session) and then after the log is written locally, it will forward the logfile to panorama

(technically: logrcvr process is responsible for generating and writing logs locally, varrcvr process forwards log externally)

you can set your local log storage to be incredibly small so 'old' logs get overwritten very quickly, but this would also cause logs to get lost if you ever experience connectivity issues to panorama (as then the logs won't get forwarded and overwritten quickly thereafter)

only logs that are written locally first can be forwarded to panorama (so disabling logs and then enabling logforwarding as suggested by @MichaelMelone would not create any logs)

Re: Log forwarding - Local on Gateway or Panorama

MichaelMelone — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:35:40 GMT

Thanks for that explaination @reaper