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Sophos XG Firewall 17.5: Logs are not updating on the GUI "Log Viewer"

Sophos XG firewall is offering on Device Reporting and logs, which is a good feature for all SMBs. There is another module "Sophos iView" available for logs and reporting but it is good for some critical organization or big data Center who need a lot of logs, reports, and backup of all those.   

Recently, I faced an issue as there is no log showing on the GUI "Log Viewer" but you will see all logs through the command line or some new logs on the auxiliary device but not on the primary devices (new logs not updating). This issue is reported on a virtual and hardware firewall as well. Today I am going to share how to handle this issue without book a ticket with the NOC team.

 

Issue Reported:

Logs are not updating on the GUI "Log Viewer" application of the Sophos XG firewall. 

Troubleshooting Steps:

Please read a full blog post at:

http://www.routexp.com/2019/04/sophos-xg-firewall-175-logs-are-not.html



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  • Hey there.

     

    No use doing something to restart the Gartner service when the IPSec logs are not being written when it is already running.

     

    Something has changed from 17.5.4 to 17.5.6 to break that

    Regards,

    Gavin Daniels. DipIT(Networking)

     

     
  • Hello Gavin,

    If you are not getting any IPSEC log lines in the SYSTEM log comp then yiu have a different problem than this issue and should contact support. This Garner issue is for all logs or none at all.

    Not had any issues with IPSEC logs being written noticeably on any of mine/customer firewalls.

    Emile

  • Hi,

     

    Already have a support ticket in the system,

    Its just that this customer uses the IPSec connections a lot, so not logging really stood out.

     

    Originally had the Gartner issue, and after disabling notifications and restarting, the firewall is now logging. but trying to track an azure issue without logs is difficult.

     

    Regards

     

    Gavin

    Regards,

    Gavin Daniels. DipIT(Networking)

     

     
  • Silly question ... How many customers do you maintain ?  For statistic purposes.

    Here, I do not have to restart garner that much.  I presume it is related to the quantity of logs generated, and maybe to the speed the appliance manages these logs.  I say that because or appliances are overkill and we have few users.  Their web activities being mostly mails.  We have have IP telephony.  This generates "A LOT" however.

    Paul Jr

  • Hello Gavin,

    PMed you regarding the Azure issue.

    @Buck

    We do not actively maintain Customers as we are not an MSP but we have Support contracts for around 75 of our Customers. However, we are a ProServices outfit as well and i install between 2 and 4 Customer appliances/endpoint software a week (discounting multiples in the same sitting).

    I have seen this on about 30% of our Customers on 17.5.5/6 and around the same percentages on my installations. I do regularly enable the alert notifications but since this issue i have stopped.

    Emile

  • Hi

    @Emile Have responded to PM

     

    @Buck Have 15 which I manage, most are running 17.5.4 MR4 at present and will be staying there until this is resolved. Have had no Gartner logging issues with any of them, but most of them do not produce a large volume of logs per day. All are a minimum of an XG125, with a couple of XG210 and a XG310

     

    I only upgraded 2 units to MR6 due to the listed IPSec fixes related to connection rekey issues believing it may assist with the Azure issue. But without logging it is really difficult to resolve.

    There needs to be a way of getting the console logs out, but I cant seem to find one.

     

    Regards

    Gavin

    Regards,

    Gavin Daniels. DipIT(Networking)