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ss198939
ss198939
New Member
April 11, 2018
Question

device down alert

  • April 11, 2018
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Hi 

 

is there any way that if my fortigate goes down due to power distruption i can get email alert

 

i have only 1 standalone device

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Dave_Hall
Dave_Hall
New Member
April 11, 2018

As a stand alone device, your best bet is likely to use a 3rd party network monitor software or a simple ping email notification tool. 

rwpatterson
rwpatterson
New Member
April 11, 2018

The issue with what you want is that if the FGT goes down, it's brain is shut off and it cannot alert anything. You need a monitoring tool that is located on the far side of the network because if it is behind the Fortigate, it may be susceptible to the same ISP or power issues the Fortigate is and you'll get nothing. Just my two cents. I run a Cacti server and monitor most of my devices as well as a friend's. That friend in turn monitors some of mine along with my Fortigate so there is redundancy if either of our Fortigates go south.

ede_pfau
SuperUser
ede_pfau
SuperUser
April 12, 2018

Or consider getting a UPS. Even the smallest will keep a FGT (desktop ~ 10 W) alive for 48 hours or so. The UPS could then send a SNMP trap to a remote SNMP server ('mains failure')...

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