Setting Log Retention and Backup for Firewall

To set how long logs are retained and how they are backed up, select 9. Log Retention from the iSecurity (part I) Global Parameters screen (STRFW > 81), as shown in Configuring Firewall.

The Log & Journal Retention screen appears.

​                           ​ Log & Journal Retention​          ​ 24/02/20​ 18:01:08​                                                                                   ​ Type options, press Enter.​                                                        ​ Log retention period (days) . . .​ ​   99​            ​ Days, 9999=*NOMAX​           ​ Backup program for logs . . . . .​ ​ *NONE     ​      ​ Name, *STD, *NONE​             ​ Backup program library. . . . .​ ​           ​                                   ​ A specified backup program may run before deleting old logs. It will backup ​    ​ all data deleted after the retention period expires.  The *STD (default)    ​    ​ backup program is SMZ8/GRSOURCE GSLOGBKP.                                   ​                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ​ F3=Exit   F12=Cancel                                                      ​     ​                                                                                                                                                                  ​

Set the Log retention period (days) field to the number of days for which you want logs to be retained on the system. If you set this to 9999, logs are kept indefinitely.

In the Backup program for logs fields, you can set the name and library of a program to run before old logs are deleted. If you keep this at the default value of *STD, the backup program is SMZ8/GRSOURCE GSLOGBKP. If you set this to *NONE, no backup program is run.