Fortinet FortiAnalyzer 3.0 MR7 User Manual

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Device

Manually adding a device

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Figure 3: Configuring a device

Device Type

Select the device type.
The type is automatically pre-selected if you are adding an

unregistered device from the device list, or if you are editing an

existing device.
Other device options vary by the device type.

Device Name

Enter a name to represent the FortiGate unit, such as FG-1000-

1.This can be any descriptive name that you want assign to it, and

does not need to be its host name.
The device name is automatically pre-entered if you are adding a

FortiClient installation.

IP Address

Enter the IP address of the device.
This option appears only if Device Type is Syslog.

Device ID

Enter the device ID. Device IDs are usually the serial number of

the device, and usually appear on the dashboard of the device’s

web-based manager.
The device ID is automatically pre-entered if you are adding an

unregistered device from the device list, or if you are editing an

existing device.
This option does not appear if Device Type is Syslog or FortiClient.

Mode

Select the high availability (HA) mode of the device. If you are

adding a single unit, select Standalone. If you are adding an HA

cluster, select HA, then add the device ID of each unit in the

cluster to Member IDs.
This option appears only if Device Type is FortiGate or

FortiManager.

Member IDs

For each member in the HA cluster, enter the device ID of the

member and select Add.
This option appears only if Mode is HA.

Description

Enter any additional information on the device. Description

information appears when you hover the mouse over a device

name in the device list.

Allocated Disk Space
(MB)

Enter the amount of FortiAnalyzer hard disk space allocated to the

device’s log and content messages, including quarantined files.

For more information about on quarantine file disk quota, see

The allocated space should be at least 10 times the log rolling size

for the Log and Content Archive. For example, if you set the log

and content archive log file roll size to 50 MB, allocate at least

500 MB of disk space for the device.

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