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FortiAnalyzer Version 3.0 MR7 Administration Guide
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Figure 3: Configuring a device
Device Type Select the device type.
The type is automatically pre-selected if you are adding an
unregistered device from the device list, or if you are editing an
existing device.
Other device options vary by the device type.
Device Name Enter a name to represent the FortiGate unit, such as FG-1000-
1.This can be any descriptive name that you want assign to it, and
does not need to be its host name.
The device name is automatically pre-entered if you are adding a
FortiClient installation.
IP Address Enter the IP address of the device.
This option appears only if Device Type is Syslog.
Device ID Enter the device ID. Device IDs are usually the serial number of
the device, and usually appear on the dashboard of the device’s
web-based manager.
The device ID is automatically pre-entered if you are adding an
unregistered device from the device list, or if you are editing an
existing device.
This option does not appear if Device Type is Syslog or FortiClient.
Mode Select the high availability (HA) mode of the device. If you are
adding a single unit, select Standalone. If you are adding an HA
cluster, select HA, then add the device ID of each unit in the
cluster to Member IDs.
This option appears only if Device Type is FortiGate or
FortiManager.
Member IDs For each member in the HA cluster, enter the device ID of the
member and select Add.
This option appears only if Mode is HA.
Description Enter any additional information on the device. Description
information appears when you hover the mouse over a device
name in the device list.
Allocated Disk Space
(MB)
Enter the amount of FortiAnalyzer hard disk space allocated to the
device’s log and content messages, including quarantined files.
For more information about on quarantine file disk quota, see
“Viewing quarantined files” on page 131.
The allocated space should be at least 10 times the log rolling size
for the Log and Content Archive. For example, if you set the log
and content archive log file roll size to 50 MB, allocate at least
500 MB of disk space for the device.