Syslogs

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The syslog file records all relevant events for Gibraltar. The syslog is a important file to get information about the behaviour of the Gibraltar firewall. Examples for entries in the syslog:

Dropped packets
Starting and stopping of services/daemons
Error messages

 

The following settings can be done here:

Number of  logs: Number of lines of the syslog that are shown at the GibADMIN.
Refresh frequency in seconds: rate of actualization when the automatic refresh is activated.

Start refresh start: Click this button to start the auto refresh .

Stop refresh stop: Click this button to stop the auto refresh.

 

ATTENTION: Do not choose an interval < 5 sec because stopping the refreshes could be very difficult.

 

IP of the external syslog server: Enter the IP address of a syslog server that is running to get the syslogs from Gibraltar.
Allow syslog entries from other computers: Activate this checkbox if you want to use Gibraltar as a syslog server for other computers. Note: you must add a firewall rule to accept packets from the UDP port 514 from the designated interface to LOCAL.