Usefull CLI commands to work with logs

[_slv_]

Hello

I spend a lot of time playing with logs, ie.

 less mp-log ikemgr.log

How to:

- go to end of this file?

- search forward/backward keyword

- scrool up/down

and you problably know many other userfull keywords. Please share with us who are not well trained 😉 - yet

Regards

SLawek

[reaper · Accepted solution]

Hi SLawek

less on the firewall works a lot like less in linux

if you open a log file

• shift+g will take you to the end of the file (regular 'g' will take you to start of file)
• /<keyword> to search , while in search use 'n' to go to the next or 'N' (shift+n) to go to the previous
• only use arrow keys to scroll up or down

[cpainchaud]

you should have fun with command 'tail' too

[OtakarKlier]

'follow' is another good one if you want to see it realtime...

[_slv_]

Could You give full comnand example for "follow"

from my finding another usefull command is:

tail lines 200 mp-log ikemgr.log - shows last 200 lines.

Regards

SLawek

[OtakarKlier · Accepted solution]

Here is the command reference for 'tail':

tail

{

follow {no | yes} |

lines <value> |

agent-log <value> |

dp-log <file> |

mp-log <file> |

webserver-log <file>

}

You can find all the the CLI commands in the documentation section of the CLI Reference guides. Here is the link for the 6.1 version, https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/paloaltonetworks-com/en_US/assets/pdf/technical-documen...

[MikeMeredith]

And like Linux you can use 'h' to show a help screen with more commands on.