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abarushka
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July 8, 2025

Technical Tip: how to find the amount of free and available memory

  • July 8, 2025
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Description This article describes how to find the amount of free and available memory.
Scope FortiTester.
Solution

Connect to FortiTester over SSH using the administrator profile ('admin' role). Only the 'admin' role allows to running 'config <>' and 'diagnose <>' type of commands.

 

administrator.png

 

After that, run in CLI 'diagnose hardware info' and find the 'Memory info' section. 

 

Here is a sample below:

 

### Memory info
MemTotal: 4037524 kB
MemFree: 2312020 kB
MemAvailable: 2473708 kB

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