Fortiga...onverter(3pm)

📦 version 2.1.1, in arch rolling

okay so bestie, this is the Fortiga...onverter(3pm) page from LogReport's Lire Documentation — yes, the manual name is a little mysterious, but we move. The actual name is FortigateDlfConverter, and it has opinions about FortiGate logs. Let’s get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

FortigateDlfConverter — convert FortiGate syslog logs to firewall DLF. that's the name line, iconic and to the point 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

FortigateDlfConverter converts FortiGate 3.x packet log into firewall DLF format. literally its whole job, and it ate 💅

FortiGate is a security solution by Fortinet, a provider of Unified Threat Management security systems, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, — yes the comma is there, we leave it alone 🫶

🦋 LIMITATIONS 🦋

The limitations are: To be discovered.

that's it. that's the limitation. the mystery is the limit, bestie 😭

💖 EXAMPLES 💖

FortigateDlfConvertor will be rarely used on its own, but it's more likely called by lr_log2report. and yes, it's Convertor with an o right here — spelling kept cute and exact 🍓

$ lr_log2report Fortigate < /var/log/Fortigate.log > report

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • FortiGate user manual.
  • Syslog output from Fortigate.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Jean Benoit Marzio <jbmarzio@netstaff.fr> — author icon, periodt 💜

⭐ VERSION ⭐

$Id: FortigateDlfConverter.pm,v 1.3 2009/01/13 11:26:35 wraay Exp $

okay legal bestie, here's the exact copyright tea, no cap:

  • Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Stichting LogReport Foundation
  • LogReport@LogReport.org
  • Copyright (C) 2008 Jean Benoit Marzio

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

and that's the page, bestie 💖 this is from Lire 2.1.1, dated 2025-09-28, and the manual name is Fortiga...onverter(3pm). stay slay, read your logs 🫶🌈

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