Technical Tip: Syslog setting is showing as disabled despite it is configured

[kcheng]

Description	This article describes the reason why the Syslog setting is showing as disabled in GUI despite it having been configured in CLI.
Scope	FortiGate, Syslog.
Solution	FortiGate allows up to 4 Syslog servers configuration: If the Syslog server is configured under syslogd2, syslogd3, or syslogd4 settings, the respective would not be shown in GUI. In the following example, syslogd was not configured and not enabled. However, syslogd2 is configured and enabled: On the GUI, it was observed that the option of 'Send logs to syslog' is disabled: From the CLI sniffer, it was observed that FortiGate is sending logs to the Syslog server: This is an expected behavior as FortiGate GUI would show the Syslog server entry for the first Syslog device. Configuration for syslogd2, syslogd3 and syslogd4 would only be shown in CLI.