Storage Overview Tab

Only 4700 to 13700 firewalls allow you to select between Primary or Secondary storage devices if the secondary device is available and valid. On TZ series, NSa 2700, and NSa 3700 firewalls, applications can write only to secondary storage; primary storage is reserved for system, diagnostic, and configuration data only. For NSv, only one storage exists Local Storage, applications can write into this storage. You can change the storage option. It is required to reboot for the changing the storage device to take effect. Only Packet capture and Logs (Legacy) allows deletion of files. System Logs, Threat Logs and Appflow Report does not allow deletion of files.

Storage is disabled if your security appliance does not have any available storage modules.

Unlike Primary Storage, that is meant to be used by only one firewall, the Secondary Storage module is a shared device that can be used on multiple firewalls if successfully activated on each firewall. In the Secondary Storage module, a top-level directory is created with the firewall EPAID as the directory name. Applications create subdirectories inside this top-level directory and store their data there.

The Overview tab displays a pie chart representation of each storage module. It gives a high level representation of storage space used by each module and also the remaining available space. The log names in the chart are interactive-clicking on them redirects to specific storage tabs.

Each storage module is assigned with 10% of the total storage space.