Symantec 360R Administration Guide - Page 119

9 Chapter Logging, monitoring and updates This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Managing logging ■ Updating firmware ■ Backing up and restoring configurations ■ Interpreting LEDs ■ LiveUpdate and firmware upgrade LED sequences The appliance provides configurable system logging features for viewing the system logs and monitoring system status. Managing logging The firewall, IDS, IPS, VPN, content filtering, and AVpe features of the product log messages when certain events occur. You can configure which events are logged so that you view only the log messages that you need. You can view these log messages through the SGMI, or forward them to external services. Log messages are maintained until the appliance is restarted. On all appliances, the 100 most current messages are available to view. On models 360 and 360R, the most current 100 log events are maintained, even if the appliance is restarted. When the log is full, new entries overwrite the oldest ones. You should set up either email forwarding or a Syslog server if you want to retain old log messages. See "Emailing log messages" on page 120 or "Using Syslog" on page 121.