F-SECURE ANTI-VIRUS FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE 9.00, Administrator'S Manual

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3. Use the recommended logging time and file size that are shown in the Logging time and Max log file
size fields. You can also change them if you want to.
4. Click Start logging . A new file is added to the log files list. The size of the file increases as information
is gathered in the file. If the list already contains 10 log files, the next log is gathered into an existing file.
5. To stop the logging manually, click Stop logging . The logging stops automatically after the defined
logging time period has elapsed, or the defined maximum log file size has been reached.
A new log file is generated and added to the log files list.
View the packet log
After you have generated a packet log , you can open it for viewing.
To view the packet log :
1. On the main page, click Settings .
2. Select Network connections
➤
Logging .
3. Select the packet log you want to view and click Details .
The default packet log viewer opens. The upper pane of the window shows all the logged connections.
You can view the following information:
Description Field
Time in seconds from the moment when logging was
started. If the defined logging time is 60 seconds, the
Time
starting time for the first packet is close to 0 seconds,
and the starting time for the last packet is close to
60 seconds.
Shows whether the firewall let through or dropped
the packet , and shows the direction of the packet :
Drop (dir)
• No : Allowed the packet .
• Yes : Dropped the packet .
• In : Inbound packet .
• Out : Outbound packet .
This information is not available if you view the file in
a packet logging program other than the default
packet log viewer.
The used IP protocol .
Protocol
Source IP address of the packet .
Source
Destination IP address of the packet .
Destination
IP packet header information: Identifier of the packet.
ID
IP packet header information: Time To Live value
of the packet defines the number of network devices
TTL
through which the packet can travel before it is
discarded.
IP packet header information: Total length of the
packet .
Len
Description of the packet .
Description
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