• SonicOS 8
• About SonicOS
  • Working with SonicOS
  • SonicOS Workflow
  • How to Use the SonicOS Administration Guides
  • Guide Conventions
• About Device
  • Device Log Introduction
• Settings
  • Filtering the Base Setup View
  • Configuring the Logging and Alert Levels
    • Setting the Logging Level
    • Setting the Alert Level
  • About Other Top Row Buttons
    • Edit Attributes of All Categories
    • Reset All Event Counts
    • Save Template
    • Import Template
      • Default Template
      • Minimal Template
      • Analyzer/ViewPoint/GMS Template
      • Firewall Action Template
      • Custom Template
    • View Logs
  • About the Log Settings Base Setup Table
    • Category Column
    • Color Column
    • ID Column
    • Priority Column
    • GUI Column
    • Alert Column
    • Syslog Column
    • Internet Protocol Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Column
    • Email Column
    • Event Count Column
    • Edit and Reset Count Icons
  • Configuring Event Attributes Globally
  • Configuring Event Attributes Selectively
    • Configuring Event Attributes by Category
    • Configuring Event Attributes by Group
    • Configuring Event Attributes by Event
    • About Filename Logging
• Syslog
  • About Event Profiles
  • About Syslog Server Profiling
  • Using a GMS/Analytics Server for Syslog
  • Syslog Settings
  • Syslog Servers
    • Adding a Syslog Server
    • Editing a Syslog Server
    • Enabling Syslog Servers
    • Disabling Syslog Server
    • Deleting Syslog Servers
• Automation
  • Email Settings
  • Mail Server Settings
  • FTP Log Automation
• Name Resolution
• Reports
  • Data Collection
  • View Data
  • Backup Logs Information
• AWS
  • Enabling AWS Logs
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Configuring Event Attributes Selectively

For how to configure event attributes globally, see Configuring Event Attributes Globally.

On the Log > Settings page, the columns show the main event attributes that can be configured on different levels: category, group, or per event.

The Edit Log pop-up dialogs might look slightly similar, but the effect of each varies in scope.

• Edit Log Category dialog modifies settings for a category and all groups that belong to the same category and, consequently, all events in that category.
• Edit Log Group dialog modifies settings for a group and all events that belong to that group.
• Edit Log Event dialog modifies settings for one specific event.

Enable for the columns is green when all are enabled, white when all are disabled, and semi-solid when they are mixed (some enabled, some disabled).

As this configuration is for all categories, you have to explicitly set the option to “all enabled” by clicking the icon until it is solid green, or to set the option to “all disabled” by clicking the icon until it is white. To configure a single category, group, or event to be different, you must go into the individual dialog or event setting. If you do this, the icon is semi-solid.

You can enable or disable a column. In the rows for categories and groups, the enable indicators are gray (enabled, disabled, and mixed) and cannot be changed except through the Edit Log Category or Edit Log Group dialogs.

The rows for events contain checkboxes for enabling (ü) or disabling () the event instead of indicators.

• Configuring Event Attributes by Category
• Configuring Event Attributes by Group
• Configuring Event Attributes by Event
• About Filename Logging