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Customizing Logging and Notification by Service or Option
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Setting a Firebox friendly name for log files
You can give the Firebox a friendly name to be used in log files. If you do
not specify a name, the Firebox’s IP address is used. From Policy
Manager:
1 Select Setup => Name.
The Firebox Name dialog box appears.
2 Enter the friendly name of the Firebox. Click OK.
All characters are allowed except blank spaces and forward or back slashes (/ or \).
For more information on the log file names used by WFS, see the
following FAQ:
https://support.watchguard.com/advancedfaqs/log_filename.asp
Customizing Logging and Notification by Service or Option
The WatchGuard Firebox System allows you to create custom logging and
notification properties for each service and blocking option. You can fine-
tune your security policy, logging only those events that require your
attention and limiting notification to those of truly high priority.
To make logging and notification configuration easier, services, blocking
categories, and packet-handling options share an identical dialog box, as
shown in the following figure. Therefore, once you learn the controls for
one type of service, you can easily configure the remainder.
You can define the following: