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Logging for deny/drop policy

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Hi Team,

 

what is the recommended/ best practice logging option for policies with action set as deny/drop? is it "log at session end" or "log at session start"?

  

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L7 Applicator

Not really much point in logging session end as the traffic will be denied anyhow depending on the actual policy so why wait for the FIN/FIN ACK.

 

I tend not to log deny policies unless for debug and when i do need logging I only ever use "session start" as the log entry will be generated on the first packet and also do not forward to Panorama.

 

I do however always log session end on my allow policies.

HTH.

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L7 Applicator

Not really much point in logging session end as the traffic will be denied anyhow depending on the actual policy so why wait for the FIN/FIN ACK.

 

I tend not to log deny policies unless for debug and when i do need logging I only ever use "session start" as the log entry will be generated on the first packet and also do not forward to Panorama.

 

I do however always log session end on my allow policies.

HTH.

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