My Fortinet 60E firewall doesn’t have a hard drive so logs are stored either in flash memory or on Fortinet’s Cloud. Flash memory will eventually fail from R/Ws. So I created an Ubuntu Rsyslog server to write the logs to. By default Rsyslog is installed on Ubuntu Servers. Below is the code I used to split up the log files into several groups: Firewall, geofencing, and local stuff.
sudo cat 50-default.conf
:msg,contains,”[UFW ” /var/log/ufw/ufw.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”NAC quarantine” /var/log/Firewall/NAC_quarantine.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Reserved” /var/log/Firewall/Reserved_RFC1819.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”China” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/China.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Estonia” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/Estonia.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Hong Kong” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/HongKong.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Iran, Islamic Republic of” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/Iran.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Korea, Democratic” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/NK.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Pakistan” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/Pakistan.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Russian” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/RussianFederation.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Romania” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/Romania.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Ukraine” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/Ukraine.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Vietnam” /var/log/Firewall/geofencing/Vietnam.log
& stop
:msg,contains,”Firewall” /var/log/Firewall/Firewall.log
& stop
# Default rules for rsyslog.
#
# For more information see rsyslog.conf(5) and /etc/rsyslog.conf
#
# First some standard log files. Log by facility.
#
auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
#cron.* /var/log/cron.log
#daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
#lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log
mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
#user.* -/var/log/user.log
#
# Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that
# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
#
#mail.info -/var/log/mail.info
#mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err /var/log/mail.err
#
# Some “catch-all” log files.
#
#*.=debug;\
# auth,authpriv.none;\
# news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug
#*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
# auth,authpriv.none;\
# cron,daemon.none;\
# mail,news.none -/var/log/messages
#
# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
#
*.emerg :omusrmsg:*
#
# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
# console I usually leave idle.
#
#daemon,mail.*;\
# news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
# *.=debug;*.=info;\
# *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8
michael@syslog22:/etc/rsyslog.d$