Technical Tip: Category 'Operational Technology' is not available in category list of application control profile
| Description | This article describes how to make the category 'Operational Technology' available in the application control profile. |
| Scope | FortiGate. |
| Solution | FortiGate has a valid license for 'Operational Technology (OT) Security Service', and can connect to the FortiGuard servers and download the relevant signature databases, but the category 'Operational Technology' is not available yet in the application control profile, while exclude-signatures is set to 'ot' in the IPS global setting as well as below:
config ips global
To resolve this issue, enable an application profile on a firewall policy and then run the commands below via CLI to get an update from the FortiGuard server:
diagnose debug disable
After a couple of minutes, disable debugging by running the commands below and then check the application profile; the category 'Operational Technology' will be available:
diagnose debug disable
The following article can be referred to configure Application Control via CLI: Technical Tip: How to configure an application sensor via CLI |

