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January 26, 2026

Technical Tip: FGSP mismatched session count on peer members

  • January 26, 2026
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Description This article describes steps for troubleshooting a FortiGate Session Persistence (FGSP) cluster member where the session counts on the peer members are not the same.
Scope FortiGate FGSP.
Solution

Follow the steps below for all members:

  1. Check system status and session count.

 

get system status

get system performance status

 

  1. Check on the debug application session sync for any indication of errors.

 

diagnose debug reset

diagnose debug application sessionsync -1

diagnose debug console timestamp enable

diagnose debug enable

 

  1. Find an example of an affected session. For example, select one source IP as a filter, then check the session lists on both devices to see what session state the mismatched sessions are in (focus on proto_state).

 

diagnose sys session filter src <x.x.x.x>

diagnose sys session list

 

  1. Check on session sync stats, and session-sync-dev stats if sessions-sync-dev is in use. 

 

diagnose sys session sync

diagnose sys ha session-sync-dev

 

A sample of command output that shows the issue:

FortiGate1 and FortiGate2 are FGSP members, port5 and port6 are session-sync-dev.

 

FortiGate1 # diagnose sys session sync
sync_ctx: sync_started=1, sync_tcp=1, sync_others=1,
sync_expectation=1, sync_nat=1, stdalone_sesync=1.
sync: create=3180321718:655456, update=464463678, delete=0:0, query=280478267
recv: create=406936:0, update=899932, delete=122:0, query=947755304
ses pkts: send=2598787121, alloc_fail=0, recv=27325296, recv_err=4182392814, sz_err=0, ses_convert_err=0

 

FortiGate2 # diagnose sys session sync
sync_ctx: sync_started=1, sync_tcp=1, sync_others=1,
sync_expectation=1, sync_nat=1, stdalone_sesync=1.
sync: create=0:0, update=0, delete=0:0, query=604402765
recv: create=2629341889:255085, update=3066393570, delete=782:0, query=534130878
ses pkts: send=29053159, alloc_fail=0, recv=564860091, recv_err=2150194712, sz_err=0, ses_convert_err=0

 
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