Log > Settings

This section provides configuration tasks to enable you to categorize and customize the logging functions on your Dell SonicWALL security appliance for troubleshooting and diagnostics.

The Log > Settings page displays logging data in a series of columns and allows you to configure the logging entries and to reset event counts. You can filter the entries to limit the data display to only those events of interest. You can import and save logging templates.

Topics:

Table Columns

Topics:

Category Column

The Category column of the Log Monitor table has three levels:

Clicking the small black triangle to the left of the category or group name expands or collapses the category or group contents:

Color Column

The Color column shows the color with which the event, group, or category is highlighted in Dashboard > Log Monitor.

ID Column

The ID column shows the ID number of the event. The ID for a particular message is listed in the SonicOS Combined Log Events Reference Guide.

Priority Column

CAUTION: Changing the Event Priority may have serious consequences as the Event Priority for all categories will be changed. Modifying the Event Priority will affect the Syslog output for the tag “pri=” as well as how the event will be treated when performing filtering by priority level. Setting the Event Priority to a level that is lower than the Logging Level will cause those events to be filtered out. Also, as GMS ignores received Syslogs that have a level of Debug, heartbeat messages and reporting messages must have a minimum Event Priority of Inform.

The Priority column shows the severity or priority of a category, group, or event. For events, a drop-down menu lists the selectable priorities. For categories and groups, the priorities are listed in the dialog when you click the Configure button at the end of the row.

The available priorities are:

GUI Column

The GUI column indicates whether this item is displayed in Dashboard > Log Monitor. Display of categories and groups is shown with a To show or hide:

Alert Column

The Alert column shows checkboxes that indicate whether an Alert message will be sent for this event, group, or category.

Syslog Column

The Syslog column shows checkboxes that indicate whether the event, group, or category will be sent to a Syslog server.

Email Column

The Email column shows checkboxes that indicate whether the log will be emailed to the configured address. For events, these checkboxes are configurable in the column. For categories and groups, Email is configured in the Edit Log Group or Edit Log Category dialogs that appear when you click the Configure button at the end of the row.

Event Count Column

The Event Count column shows the count of events by:

By hovering your mouse over an event count, a pop-up dialog displays showing the count of events dropped for these reasons:

Configure and Reset Event Count Icons

The Configure and Reset Event Count icons appear at the end of each row.

Configure Icon

The Configure icon launches the Edit Log Event, Edit Log Group, or Edit Log Category dialog. You can configure all of the attributes for an event, group, or category.

Reset Event Count Icon

The Reset Event Count icon resets the event counter for an event, a group, or a category, and the event counters of higher levels are recalculated. To reset all counters, use the Reset Event Count button above the Log Settings table, as described in Reset Event Count Button .