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HenryXu
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December 20, 2021
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FortiGate 400E extended logging

  • December 20, 2021
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We deploy the FortiGate 400E as IDS to port mirror FortiGate FW.
- ips license is enable on this 400E, but without web filtering license.

To get http header raw data(request url, request method, user agent, x-forwarded-for,referer) from ips log.

Am I able to get http header data if just enable extended-log in ips profile setting ?

"set extended-log enable"

 

Thanks in advance.

Henry Xu

Best answer by Debbie_FTNT

Dear Henry,

 

you should be able to get the HTTP headers in IPS logs just as well as webfilter logs - if you refer to https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.3/fortios-log-message-reference/630151/utm-extended-logging, you can see that extended logging is for UTM logs in general, no matter the subtype (IPS, webfilter, whatever).

Please note that the full extended UTM log is only sent to reliable syslog servers (syslog via TCP), and all other logging solutions will receive a truncated rawdata field.

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Debbie_FTNT
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
December 20, 2021

Dear Henry,

 

you should be able to get the HTTP headers in IPS logs just as well as webfilter logs - if you refer to https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.3/fortios-log-message-reference/630151/utm-extended-logging, you can see that extended logging is for UTM logs in general, no matter the subtype (IPS, webfilter, whatever).

Please note that the full extended UTM log is only sent to reliable syslog servers (syslog via TCP), and all other logging solutions will receive a truncated rawdata field.

HenryXu
HenryXuAuthor
Visitor III
December 29, 2021

Thanks Debbie for your quick response.

We've received the http headers in IPS logs.

The issue has been resolved.

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