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drwho
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November 22, 2016
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Bandwidth Monitoring in Fortigate 100D

  • November 22, 2016
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Hi Guys,

 

I am new in Fortigate firewall, is there way to monitor the bandwidth from the settings of the firewall or a software that you can suggest? Thank you guys. 

    Best answer by retrotech

    @drwho, looking at my setup it was a built-in traffic sensor that either I added or one the application picked up on when I ran "Auto Discovery" on the device (I believe it was the latter). I see both our WANs and all our LANs as traffic sensors in PRTG. If I remember correctly, I just renamed them to something more human readable after auto discovery.

     

    The CPU and memory sensors looks like I added as "custom snmp sensors" and supplied the OID. You can get the OIDs using the MIB file obtained from the fortigate then browse that MIB file with an MIB browser to find what you are looking for. There are also some forum posts with the OIDs but I prefer to get it from the source. :) (Though posts are great as a secondary source)

    2 replies

    emilec
    New Member
    November 22, 2016

    You can get some basic reports from FortiView on the device, but you want to look at FortiCloud or FortiAnalyzer for reporting.

    Alby23
    New Member
    November 22, 2016

    The best way I've ever found is surely via SNMP monitoring with tool like Zabbix, Cacti, Nagios and so on.

    retrotech
    New Member
    November 22, 2016

    We also use SNMP. We use PRTG Network Monitor.

    drwho
    drwhoAuthor
    New Member
    December 1, 2016

    @retrotech, do you have link to share on how to configure PRTG in the network to monitor the internet bandwidth?