Technical Tip: How to backup crashlog files to an external server (FTP/TFTP) in FortiADC

[JohnDevNet_FTNT]

Description

This article shows how to send the crashlog files that FortiADC generates to an external server such as FTP or TFTP.

Crashlog files contain information about events that could be required for further analysis and troubleshooting.

Scope

FortiADC.

Solution

In this example, the FTP/TFTP server has an IP Address of 10.10.10.80.

1. Display the crashlog files:

diagnose crashlog list

101.4M Jul 27 2016 coredump-2016-07-27-01_43

88.3K Jul 27 2016 core-2016-07-27-01_43

526.9K Jul 14 2016 cli-3802-1468507370.gz

2. Execute the following command to send all crashlog files via FTP to the server 10.10.10.80 port 21 using user admin and password admin123:
   
   diagnose crashlog upload ftp all 10.10.10.80:21 admin admin123
3. The following command could be used to send only one named file to the server, in this example the file 'cli-3802-1468507370.gz' is sent:

diagnose crashlog upload ftp cli-3802-1468507370.gz 10.10.10.80:21 admin admin123