RE: [logs] Firewall One and Syslog

From: Rainer Gerhards (rgerhardsat_private)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 01:03:32 PST

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    Tina,
    
    > On a UNIX FW-1, the configuration changes (which are 
    > >>critical<< security
    > information) are stored in a file called cpmgmt.aud, within 
    > the FW-1 root log directory.  It's plain text, so my FW-1 to 
    > syslog guide recommends just doing a "tail -f" and piping to 
    > logger.  Assuming that the same file exists on NT, you'd need 
    > to find a way to do the equivalent -- have a process that 
    > monitors that file for additions, and then writes them to the 
    > Event Log.
    
    If that file exist, we can do that with www.mwagent.com - it can forward
    those files.
    > 
    > Network connection logs are stored in a 
    > Checkpoint-proprietary binary file.  They supply a utility to 
    > convert them to ASCII, so the same general trick works: 
    > convert them to text, pipe them to logger.  Since I didn't 
    > have any way to do that sort of sophisticated stuff on 
    > Windows (coding not being my strong suit), I usually just set 
    > the FW-1 to log network connections to SNMP and grabbed them that way.
    
    Sounds easy enough to do for the DOS hacks ;)
    
    At least I'd try it and see good chance. Problem: I don't have a FW-1 at
    hand. Sombody out there who has one and would like to try it together
    with me?
    
    Rainer
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