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odvise
odvise
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November 25, 2024
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Enterprise Bandwidth Monitoring "NOC View"

  • November 25, 2024
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I'm curious what people are doing for a NOC view for your Fortinet infrastructure? We're migrating to Fortinet in January, and we would like to display the current bandwidth usage for our SD-WAN infrastructure in our IT area. I know there are various tools like PTRG, Solarwinds Netflow, or even exporting to Grafana, but I'm curious how the seasoned vets of Fortinet do this. Does Fortinet offer something or do you have to use something more?

Thanks in advance everyone

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AEK
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AEK
SuperUser
November 25, 2024

With FortiAnalyzer you can see various reports including SD-WAN bandwidth graphs and much more. However it is based on traffic logs, not on NetFlow/sFlow.

AEK
DPadula
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DPadula
Staff & Editor
November 25, 2024

A monitoring tool is the better solution but you can always create a user on Fortigate with read access to the dashboard and add a interface bandwidth widget to it. It is not ideal but will do the job. 

 

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Toshi_Esumi
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Toshi_Esumi
SuperUser
November 25, 2024

With FGTs, all FTNT's external tools that shows "usage" is based on log. So none of them are actually in "bps" but "B(bytes)". Except when you get in the FGT's GUI to see the "bandwidth" with an interface bandwidth widget as @DPadula showed you.
Probably you can pull the same info via API if you write some codes to poll the info periodically, but that's beyond my knowledge.

Toshi

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