FortiCloud
The FortiCloud is a subscription-based hosted service. With this service, you can have centralized management, logging, and reporting capabilities available in FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager platforms, without any additional hardware to purchase, install or maintain. In most cases, FortiCloud is the recommended location for saving and viewing logs.
This service includes a full range of reporting, analysis and logging, firmware management and configuration revision history. It is hosted within the Fortinet global FortiGuard Network for maximum reliability and performance, and includes reporting, and drill-down analysis widgets makes it easy to develop custom views of network and security events.
The FortiGate unit sends log messages to the FortiCloud using TCP port 443. Configuration is available once a user account has been set up and confirmed. To enable the account on the FortiGate unit, go to System > Dashboard > Status, select Activate, and enter the account ID.
For FortiCloud traffic, you can identify a specific port/IP address for logging traffic. Configuration of these services is performed in the CLI, using the command set source-ip. When configured, this becomes the dedicated port to send this traffic over.
For example, to set the source IP of the FortiCloud server to be on the DMZ1 port with an IP of 192.168.4.5, the commands are:
config log fortiguard setting
set status enable
set source-ip 192.168.4.5
end
From the FortiGate unit, you can configure the connection and sending of log messages to be sent over an SSL tunnel to ensure log messages are sent securely. To do this, use the CLI commands to enable the encrypted connection and define the level of encryption.
config log fortiguard setting
set status enable
set enc-alogorithm {default | high | low | disable}
end
For more information on each encryption level see
“Configuring an SSL connection”.
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