Technical Tip: SDN connector does not show all externally configured objects
Description
After setting up the SDN connector and after establishing the connection, the firewall will poll for the data from the external connector and saves the list for showing hints when defining dynamic address objects.
This article describes that when the object (Application, Endpoint group, Tag, Tenant,..) does not have an IP address, the firewall will skip these objects from the preloaded hints.
Solution
The GUI shows only objects that have a resolvable IP address.
To the object preloaded from the GUI, it will be necessary to make sure the object defined externally have at least one IPv4 address.
The preloaded filter list servers just as a hint and even values existing at the external connector without IP address data can be set up for the dynamic address object.
Related article,
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.4.7/administration-guide/753961/public-and-private-sdn-connectors