1) Copy the old .log file & associated .ptr files to a safe location from the backup server & notedown the path of the .log file.
2) Open the fw.log file from the %FWDIR%/log file to know the current location of the logs & Save the file in a safe location.
4) Open the old .log file path into the fw.log under %FWDIR%/log & save the changes.
5) Now open the SmartViewTracker & we can observe the old logs are logged.
6) Open the File menu from the SmartViewTracker & export the logs to the safe location & save it.
Now you can see the .log in to the readable format.
After exporting all the logs,revert the current log location into the fw.log file & save it.
1)Please follow these steps,before deleting the Firewall Logs from the Management Server.
a) Take the backup of the $FWDIR/log file and delete old logs and associated .prt files.
b) These files also can be deleted from the logs.
1) cpinfo files
2) backup files
3) .logaccount_ptr
4) .loginitial_ptr
5) .logptr
6) .log
