Verify File Forwarding

Verify the status of the firewall connection to the WildFire public and/or private cloud, including the total number of files forwarded by the firewall for analysis.
Use the
show wildfire status
command to:
Check the status of the WildFire public and/or private cloud to which the firewall is connected. The status
Idle
indicates that the WildFire cloud (public or private) is ready to receive files for analysis.
Confirm the configured size limits for files forwarded by the firewall (
Device
Setup
WildFire
).
Monitor file forwarding, including how the total count of files forwarded by the firewall for WildFire analysis. If the firewall is in a WildFire hybrid cloud deployment, the number of files forwarded to the WildFire public cloud and the WildFire private cloud are also displayed.
The following example shows the
showwildfire status
output for a firewall in a WildFire private cloud deployment:

To view forwarding information for only the WildFire public cloud or WildFire private cloud, use the following commands:
show wildfire status channel public
show wildfire status channel private
View samples forwarded by the firewall according to file type (including email links).
Use this option to confirm that email links are being forwarded for WildFire analysis, since only email links that receive a malicious or phishing verdict are logged as
WildFire Submissions
entries on the firewall, even if logging for benign and grayware samples is enabled. This is due to the sheer number of WildFire Submissions entries that would be logged for benign email links.
Use the
show wildfire statistics
command to confirm the file types being forwarded to the WildFire public or private cloud:
The command displays the output of a working firewall and shows counters for each file type that the firewall forwards for WildFire analysis. If a counter field shows 0, the firewall is not forwarding that file type.
Confirm that email links are being forwarded for analysis by checking that the following counters do not show zero:
FWD_CNT_APPENDED_BATCH
—Indicates the number of email links added to a batch waiting for upload to WildFire.
FWD_CNT_LOCAL_FILE
— Indicates the total number of email links uploaded to WildFire.
Verify that a specific sample was forwarded by the firewall and check that status of that sample.
This option can be helpful when troubleshooting to:
Confirm that samples that have not yet received a WildFire verdict were correctly forwarded by the firewall. Because
WildFire Submissions
are logged on the firewall only when WildFire analysis is complete and the sample has received a WildFire verdict, use this option to verify the firewall forwarded a sample that is currently undergoing WildFire analysis.
Track the status for a single file or email link that was allowed according to your security policy, matched to a WildFire Analysis profile, and then forwarded for WildFire analysis.
Check that a firewall in a hybrid cloud deployment is forwarding the correct file types and email links to either the WildFire public cloud or a WildFire private cloud.
Execute the following CLI commands on the firewall to view samples the firewall has forwarded WildFire analysis:
View all samples forwarded by the firewall with the CLI command
debug wildfire upload-log
.
View only samples forwarded to the WildFire public cloud with the CLI command
debug wildfire upload-log channel public
.
View only samples forwarded to the WildFire private cloud with the CLI command
debug wildfire upload-log channel private
.
The following example shows the output for the three commands listed above when issued on a firewall in a WildFire public cloud deployment:

Monitor samples successfully submitted for WildFire analysis.
Using the firewall web interface, select
Monitor
Logs
WildFire Submissions
. All files forwarded by a firewall to the WildFire public or private cloud for analysis are logged on the WildFire Submissions page.
Check the WildFire verdict for a sample:
By default, only samples that receive malicious or phishing verdicts are displayed as
WildFire Submissions
entries. To enable logging for benign and/or grayware samples, select
Device
Setup
WildFire
Report Benign Files/ Report Grayware Files
.
Enable logging for benign files as a quick troubleshooting step to verify that the firewall is forwarding files. Check the
WildFire Submissions
logs to verify that files are being submitted for analysis and receiving WildFire verdicts (in this case, a benign verdict).
Confirm the analysis location for a sample:
The
WildFire Cloud
column displays the location to which the file was forwarded and where it was analyzed (public cloud or private cloud). This is useful when deploying a hybrid cloud.