The SEC is online, but there are no events in Security Cloud Control Firewall Management Event Logging Page

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

Solution or workaround:

Procedure


Step 1

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

Step 2

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

Step 3

Perform the following checks:

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 Security Cloud Control Firewall Management support..