Managing the outbound firewall rule logging

Last Updated : Sep 10, 2020 |

About this task

Use this procedure to enable, disable, or view the status of the outbound firewall rule logging for the dropped connections.

If you need to monitor logs, you can enable the outbound firewall rule logging. Note that this can generate large amount of logs in the log file and might slightly impact the performance of System Manager. Therefore, it is recommended to disable the outbound firewall rule logging, once your job is complete.

Before you begin

Log in to the System Manager command line interface with CLI user credentials that you created at the time of application deployment.

Procedure

  • To enable the outbound firewall rule logging, type configureOutboundFirewall enable-logging, and press Enter.

    System Manager enables the outbound firewall rule logging and captures the logs for the dropped connections in the /var/log/outbound_firewall.log file.

  • To disable the outbound firewall rule logging, type configureOutboundFirewall disable-logging, and press Enter.

    By default the outbound firewall rule logging is disabled.

    System Manager disables the outbound firewall rule logging and does not captures the logs for the dropped connections.

  • To view the outbound firewall rule logging status, type configureOutboundFirewall logging-status, and press Enter.

    System Manager displays the outbound firewall rule logging status.