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ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N
3. Click Apply to save your settings.
Note: Enabling routing and other event logs might generate a significant
volume of log messages. NETGEAR recommends that you enable
firewall logs for debugging purposes only.
How to Send Syslogs over a VPN Tunnel between Sites
 To send syslogs from one site to another over a gateway-to-gateway VPN tunnel:
1. At Site 1, set up a syslog serve
r that is connected to Gateway 1.
2. Set up a VPN tunne
l between Gateway 1 at Site 1 and Gateway 2 at Site 2.
3. Change th
e remote IP address in the VPN policy on Gateway 1 to the WAN IP address of
Gateway 2.
4. Change th
e local IP address in the VPN policy on Gateway 2 to the WAN IP address of
Gateway 2.
5. At Site 2, specify that Gateway 2 should send the
syslogs to the syslog server at Site 1.
Enable SysLogs
Do you want
to enable
syslog?
To enable the wireless VPN firewall to send logs to a specified syslog server, select the Yes
radio button. Complete the fields that are shown on the right side of the screen.
To prevent the logs from being sent, select the No rad
io button, which is the default setting.
SysLog Server The IP address or FQDN of the syslog server.
SysLog Severity All the logs with a severity that is equal to and above the severity
that you specify are logged
on the specified syslog server. For
example, if you select LOG_CRITICAL as the severity, then the
logs with the severities LOG_CRITICAL, LOG_ALERT, and
LOG_EMERG are logged.
Select one of the following syslog severities from the drop-down
list:
• LO
G DEBUG. Debug-level messages.
• LOG INFO. Informational messages.
• LO
G NOTICE. There are normal but significant conditions.
• LOG W
ARNING. There are warning conditions.
• LOG ERROR. There are error conditions.
• L
OG CRITICAL. There are critical conditions.
• LO
G ALERT. An action has to be taken immediately.
• LOG EMERG. The wireless VPN firewall is unusable.
Table 83. Firewall Logs & E-mail screen settings (continued)
Setting Description