Technical Tip: Using CLI command to check the firewall policy creation date and time

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Description	This article describes how to check the date and time of the firewall policy creation using the CLI command.
Scope	FortiGate.
Solution	SSH into the FortiGate and run the following command: execute log filter device 0 execute log filter category 1   execute log filter field msg "Add firewall.policy 4" execute log display Note: It is possible to choose from multiple categories 0: traffic 1: event 2: utm-virus: Note: The above will only display the system event of the IPv4 firewall policy creation. Sample of the logs output: The output indicates that the firewall policy 'abc1010' was created on Oct 10, 2024, 13:07:20 FortiGate local timezone. Related articles: Displaying logs via FortiGate's CLI