ZyXEL Communications 200 Series User Manual

 Chapter 45 Logs

ZyWALL USG 100/200 Series User’s Guide

The Web configurator saves the filter settings if you leave the View Log screen and return to it 
later.

The Log Setting screens control log messages and alerts. A log message stores the 
information for viewing (for example, in the View Log tab) or regular e-mailing later, and an 
alert is e-mailed immediately. Usually, alerts are used for events that require more serious 
attention, such as system errors and attacks.

The ZyWALL provides a system log and supports e-mail profiles and remote syslog servers. 
The system log is available on the View Log tab, the e-mail profiles are used to mail log 
messages to the specified destinations, and the other four logs are stored on specified syslog 
servers.

The Log Setting tab also controls what information is saved in each log. For the system log, 
you can also specify which log messages are e-mailed, where they are e-mailed, and how often 
they are e-mailed.

For alerts, the Log Settings tab controls which events generate alerts and where alerts are e-
mailed.

Search

Click this button to update the log using the current filter settings.

Total Logging 
Entries 

This is the number of logs recorded in the ZyWALL.

entries per page

Select the number of log messages you would like to see on one screen. Choices 
are: 30, 50, and 80.

Page x of x

This is the number of the page of entries currently displayed and the total number 
of pages of entries. Type a page number to go to or use the arrows to navigate the 
pages of entries.

#

This field is a sequential value, and it is not associated with a specific log message.

Time 

This field displays the time the log message was recorded.

Priority

This field displays the priority of the log message. It has the same range of values 
as the Priority field above.

Category

This field displays the log that generated the log message. It is the same value 
used in the Display and (other) Category fields.

Message

This field displays the reason the log message was generated. The text “[count=x]”, 
where x is a number, appears at the end of the Message field if log consolidation is 
turned on (see Log Consolidation in 

) and multiple entries 

were aggregated to generate into this one.

Source

This field displays the source IP address and the port number in the event that 
generated the log message.

Destination 

This field displays the destination IP address and the port number of the event that 
generated the log message.

Note

This field displays any additional information about the log message.

Table 253   Maintenance > Log > View Log (continued)