The SEC is online, but there are no events in Firewall Manager Event Logging Page

Symptom: The Secure Event Connector shows "Active" in Firewall Manager Secure Connectors page but you do not see events in Firewall Manager Event viewer.

Solution or workaround:

Procedure

1

SSH to your host using the admin account, typically cdo.

2

Switch to the SDC user with the command sudo su - sdc.

3

Perform the following checks:

  • Check SEC connector log using the command sdc eventing logs --type connector -n 100 and ensure the SEC registration was successful.

    If not, see Secure Event Connector Registration failure.

  • Check SEC events log using the command sdc eventing logs --type events -n 200 and ensure that the events are being processed.

    If not, contact Firewall Manager support.

  • Check the SEC supervisor log with sdc eventing logs --type supervisor -n 100 and ensure the output is as shown below and all processes in RUNNING state.

    If not, contact Firewall Manager support.

INFO success: estreamer-connector entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds

INFO success: estreamer-plugin entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds

INFO success: estreamer-rsyslog entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds

  • If you have setup SDC manually using a CentOS 7 VM of your own and have the firewall configured to block incoming requests, you could execute the following commands to unblock the UDP and TCP ports:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=<udp_port>/udp --permanent

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=<tcp_port>/tcp --permanent

firewall-cmd --reload

  • Using Linux network tools of your choice, check if packets are being received on these ports. If not receiving, re-check the FTD logging configuration.

If none of the above repairs work, raise a support ticket with Firewall Manager support..