View the WildFire Appliance System Logs

1. Launch the terminal emulation software and select the type of connection (Serial or SSH).
   • To establish an SSH connection, enter the WildFire hostname or IP address of the device you want to connect to and set the port to 22.
   • To establish a Serial connection, connect a serial interface on management computer to the Console port on the device. Configure the Serial connection settings in the terminal emulation software as follows:
     • Data rate: 9600
     • Data bits: 8
     • Parity: none
     • Stop bits: 1
     • Flow control: none
2. When prompted to log in, enter your administrative credentials.
3. On a WildFire appliance, enter the following command:
   admin@WF-500>show log system subtype direction equal backward

   This command displays all WildFire logged events categorized as a wildfire-appliance subtype from oldest to newest.

   • You can reverse the display of the logs to newest to oldest by adding the command argument direction equal backward.
   • The log messages returned by the WildFire appliance CLI can include numerous subtypes. You can filter the logs based on a common keyword. Use the following command argument to filter based on a specific string: match queue < keyword>
     The following WildFire appliance log shows the system initialization processes during startup.

   Time                Severity Subtype Object EventID ID Description
   ===============================================================================
   2017/03/29 12:04:33 medium general      general 0  Hostname changed to WF-500
   2017/03/29 12:04:40 info   general      general 0  VPN Disable mode = off
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   hw           ps-inse 0  Power Supply #1 (top) inserted
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 high   general      system- 1  The system is starting up.
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   raid         pair-de 0  New Disk Pair A detected.
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   raid         pair-de 0  New Disk Pair A detected.
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   raid         pair-de 0  New Disk Pair B detected.
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   raid         pair-de 0  New Disk Pair B detected.
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   cluster      cluster 0  Cluster daemon is initializing.
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   port  eth1   link-ch 0  Port eth1: Up   1Gb/s   Full duplex
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   port  MGT    link-ch 0  Port MGT: Up 1Gb/s   Full duplex
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   port  eth3   link-ch 0  Port eth3: Up   1Gb/s   Full duplex
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   port  eth2   link-ch 0  Port eth2: Up   1Gb/s   Full duplex
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   general      general 0  Power Supply #1 (top) is not present on startup
   2017/03/29 12:04:41 info   general      general 0  Power Supply #2 (bottom) is not present on startup