1.2.5.3. Create and View Log Entries¶

In this section, you will generate various types of traffic through the firewall as you did previously, but now you will view the log entries using the network firewall log. Open your web browser and once again try to access http://10.30.0.50. Also, try to ping 10.30.0.50.

Open the Security > Event Logs > Network > Firewall page on bigip2.dnstest.lab (192.168.1.150). The log file shows the ping requests are being accepted and the web traffic is being dropped:

Although we will not configure external logging in this lab, you should be aware that the BIG-IP supports high speed external logging in various formats including SevOne, Splunk and ArcSight.