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October 28, 2018

Technical Tip: Configuring Management, SNMP, SYSLOG traffic from FortiWeb Secondary Unit

  • October 28, 2018
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Description

 

This article explains how to configure a management interface on a FortiWeb HA Secondary unit to send network management traffic e.g. SNMP TRAPS and SYSLOG.

Scope

 

FortiWeb.


Solution

 

For basic management access to the backup FortiWeb unit using the GUI or CLI to configure management traffic, SNMP traps, SNMP polling or to generate Syslog traffic
 
Go to System -> High Availability -> Settings; Enable 'Reserved Management Interface'.
 
reserved management interface.png 
Configure the Interface, for example, Port2, which will use the IP address of Port2 for the backup management IP. Add HA Static Route if the SNMP/SYSLOG server is in a subnet different from the defined interface subnet
  ha static route.png