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Big_Abe
Big_Abe
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November 8, 2016
Question

DHCP ACK overloading my logs

  • November 8, 2016
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Hey all.  

Between my Fortigate 800C and FortiAnalyzer my logs are being smashed by DHCP Ack. 

I'm using the interface on the FW  as a DHCP server for a large free public wifi network. 

 

I didn't want to relay and bog down any corporate DHCP, but I also really don't care about logging the DHCP ack.  Maybe an alert if the scope is full - but thats it. 

 

How do I turn this off?  

 

 

    2 replies

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    November 9, 2016

    Only the options you have in 'conf log fortianalyzer settings' and '... filter'.

    OTOH, you could switch over to level based logging, i.e. going from 'information' to 'notice' or 'warning'.

    somayehd
    somayehd
    New Member
    October 26, 2025

    Hi, 

    Have you found a way to suppress DHCP ACK logs?
    We're currently forwarding logs to an external syslog server hosted in Azure, and since we're billed based on log volume, we're looking to eliminate these specific entries to reduce costs.

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