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Chapter 8: The Logs and Reports Menu
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8.2.4 Interfaces
The Interfaces tab allow to select the network interface, among the active ones, whose traffic should be displayed.
Note: It is currently not possible to select flows and/or hosts from different interfaces.
8.3 Live
When entering in the Logs section, or clicking on the Live entry on the sub-menu, the Live log viewer is shown, a box
showing the list of all the log files available for real time viewing. Any number of logs to see can be chosen by ticking the
corresponding checkboxes, that are displayed in a new window upon clicking on the Show selected logs button. To
watch all the log files at once, simply tick the Select all checkbox right above the Show selected logs button and then
click on the latter button. Otherwise, to view only one log file, simply click on the Show this log only link.
The window that opens contains two boxes, Settings at the top and Live logs at the bottom.
Warning: The list of log entries can become nearly unreadable if many logs are showed, due to the possible high
number of log entries produced (especially by the firewall or proxy log, which can generate several log entries per second
in case of heavy traffic). In this cases, the logs to be displayed can be configured in the Settings box.
Settings
This box allows to modify the settings of the log viewer, including which of the log files to show, their colour and options
to highlight or find specific keywords.
On the right-hand side of the box appears the list of the logs that are currently displayed, and the colour with which
they are highlighted, while on the left-hand side some additional control elements are shown, that help limit the output:
Filter
Only the log entries that contain the expression in this field are shown.
Additional filter
Like the filter above, but applied to the output of the first filter. In other words, only log entries containing both
expressions are shown in the log.
Pause output
Clicking on this button will prevent new log entries from appearing on the live log. However, after clicking the button
once more, all new entries will appear at once, quickly scrolling the old ones.
Highlight
All the log entries that contain this expression will be highlighted in the chosen colour. The difference with the filtering
option is that all the content is still displayed and the log entries containing the expression will be highlighted with a
coloured background.
Highlight color
Clicking on the coloured square gives the choice to select the colour that will be used for highlighting.
Autoscroll
This option is only available if the Sort in reverse chronological order option in the Menubar
► Logs ► Settings section
is turned off. This causes all the new entries to be shown at the bottom of the page: If this option is enabled, the list is
scrolled upwards to show the latest entries at the bottom of the page, otherwise only the older entries are show and the
scrollbar on the right should be used to see the new ones.
To add or remove some log from the display, click on the Show more link right below the list of the log files on the top
right. The controls will be replaced by a table from which the desired log files can be selected by ticking or unticking their
respective checkboxes. To change the colour of a log file, click on the colour palette of that log type and then choose a
new colour. To show the controls again, click on one of the Close links below the table or below the list of the displayed
log files.