Wavecrest Computing — Internet Filtering and Reporting Products

FortiGate Firewall Support

Cyfin Reporter is designed to work with FortiGate Firewall using syslog. It integrates easily into your current system configuration.

Cyfin Reporter is installed on a server, not on the Fortigate Firewall appliance

Logfile Setup

Configuration Notes

Logfile Type: FortiGate

Special Instructions:

Install a syslog daemon. Download Kiwi's Syslog daemon.
Make sure the machine running the Syslog daemon is running behind the firewall on the LAN.
In the Syslog field, type the IP address of the Syslog daemon.
You should now start seeing traffic from the firewall on the syslog daemon. On the Syslog services go to the DNS setup and enable the Resolve Host option; this is very critical to get Cyfin working.
On the Syslog daemon, create a directory (i.e., C:\fortigate\logs). Now, using the logging to file option in the Kiwi setup configuration, set up the Syslog program to log the data into the log file. Important: The Kiwi syslog option for the log file date format needs to be the following: kiwi format mm-dd-yyyy {Tab delimited}
Install Cyfin and the Syslog daemon on the same server and make sure that the reporting feature is targeting the logfile used by the Syslog daemon.

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