Sawmill is a SonicWall or 3COM Firewall log analyzer (it also supports the 843 other log formats listed to the left). It can process log files in SonicWall or 3COM Firewall format, and generate dynamic statistics from them, analyzing and reporting events. Sawmill can parse SonicWall or 3COM Firewall logs, import them into a MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle database (or its own built-in database), aggregate them, and generate dynamically filtered reports, all through a web interface. Sawmill can perform SonicWall or 3COM Firewall log analysis on any platform, including Window, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS, Solaris, other UNIX, and others.
Sawmill stores the following non-numerical fields in its database for SonicWall or 3COM Firewall, generates reports for each field, and allows dynamic filtering on any combination of these fields:
| Field | Internal Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| date/time | date_time | ||
| day of week | day_of_week | ||
| hour of day | hour_of_day | ||
| user | usr | ||
| source | src | ||
| source host | src_host | ||
| source port | src_port | ||
| source network | src_network | ||
| destination | dst | ||
| destination name | dstname | ||
| destination host | dst_host | ||
| destination port | dst_port | ||
| destination network | dst_network | ||
| URL | url | ||
| ID | id | ||
| SN | sn | ||
| firewall | fw | ||
| c | c | ||
| m | m | ||
| protocol | proto | ||
| message | msg | ||
| code | code | ||
| IPS type | ipscat | ||
| IPS danger level | ipspri | ||
| SID | sid | ||
| SSID | ssid | ||
| channel | channel | ||
| event type | event_type | ||
| detection device | detection_device | ||
| detection reason | detection_reason | ||
| virus action | virus_action |
Sawmill stores the following numerical fields in its database for SonicWall or 3COM Firewall, aggregating them and including them as columns in most reports:
| Numerical Field | Internal Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| events | events | ||
| page views | page_views | ||
| visitors | visitors | ||
| sent | sent | ||
| received | rcvd |
See Sawmill Features to learn more about Sawmill's options for viewing, customizing, filtering, exporting and scheduling SonicWall or 3COM Firewall reports.
Sawmill also supports 843 other log formats.