Technical Tip: How to view, navigate 'Video Upload Finished' Logs in FortiPAM and export to remote server

Description

This article describes how to view and navigate the 'Video Upload Finished' logs and export logs to a remote server.

Scope

FortiPAM.

Solution

• A successful launch of a secret with recording enabled will have logs similar to the following.
  
  

• Select the highlighted log 'Video upload finished' and 'Details' log. The details listed are important to verify the recording details on the FortiPAM.

• In this example, the particulars for a web secret are.

Video Folder Name: 2295.

Token ID: 5532828.

Size: 175.93 KB.

• This recording can be verified in CLI by the 'fnsysctl' command.

• Videos are always stored in the 'wa_vid' folder with the '.webm' extension.
  
  

• Install any FTP server with the necessary configuration and run the below command in 'maintenance mode'.
  
  

execute backup disk video ftp <remote_path> <ftp_server>[:port] <user> <passwd>

• This will create a folder (FortiPAM license number_video) on the FTP server and transfer all the video files.

• Navigating to the 'Video folder' and 'TokenID' respectively will give access to the recording that can be downloaded and played locally.

Note: FortiPAM supports FTP only.

The section under System -> Backup -> Remote Video Storage and Configuration Backup, this is an added remote storage feature where the PAM automatically moves the local video files to a remote location when certain conditions are met, such as a local disk threshold.