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zack
zack
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June 4, 2010
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bandwidth used by time per interface

  • June 4, 2010
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I have a FortiAnalyzer 100C running V4 MR2 I would LOVE to be able to generate a report to see how much bandwidth is being used (hourly) over a reporting period (24 hours or " yesterday" ) When I log into my Fortigate firewall I have a " Traffic History" Widget that measures the flow of data in and out of an interface. It reports last 60 minutes, 24 hours and 30 days. I would LOVE to see something like that in Fortianalyzer. I really want to see a report that shows me this data, and allows me even greater granular information. I want to see how much bandwidth was used - but i also want to see who was using it (be device) That would take the Fortianalyzer from an alright appliance to a fantastic appliance in my opinion. Currently such options seem to be unavailable. If there is some kind of custom report i can build - i would appreciate step by step instructions - or a link to supporting documentation that explains how to accomplish EXACTLY what I' m looking for here. i see I' m not the first in these forums to ask for this so perhaps FortiNet could add this as a feature. To be honest, it was one of the reasons i purchased the appliance so I' m kind of sad to see it lacking.

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    SECCON1MC
    SECCON1MC
    New Member
    June 4, 2010
    Hate to brag (or is it that I love to ???) but we have had this in our app forever. We collect real interface bandwidth stats via secured snmp. I' m sure it is just a matter of time before the FAZ does something like this.
    TopJimmy
    TopJimmy
    New Member
    June 5, 2010
    Not for nothing, but the FortiManager does that too plus a whole bunch of other stuff. Below are a couple screenshots from one of my clusters for bandwidth. You can click and remove/add interfaces from the graph, slide the slider to bracket a specific time frame, click on the graph itself to show you the date, time, and bandwidth at any given time. The same " Real-Time Monitor Dashboards" exist for all kinds of things such as: interface bandwidth, sessions, IPSec bandwidth, SSL VPN Bandwidth, P2P bandwidth, Emails per second, URL' s per second, FTP per second, IM per second, CPU/Memory/HDD usage, email vs spam, urls allow vs blocked, etc.. All that and manage firmware, configs revision history, scripts, deployments, antivirus/ips updates and FortiClients. Not bad considering.....
    zack
    zackAuthor
    New Member
    June 14, 2010
    okay, but why do i need to buy a management appliance to get traffic analysis? Isn' t that the sole reason for the analyzer' s existence? Wouldn' t it be half baked if it is lacking in such features?
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    Anonymous_User
    Contributor
    June 16, 2010
    okay, but why do i need to buy a management appliance to get traffic analysis? Isn' t that the sole reason for the analyzer' s existence? Wouldn' t it be half baked if it is lacking in such features?
    I am thinking exactly the same after using the device for sometime now ....
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