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johnlloyd_13
Explorer III
August 8, 2025
Question

Fortigate Firewall Policy stuck with 0 Bytes

  • August 8, 2025
  • 3 replies
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hi,

i have a FW policy whose 'bytes' column stuck with 0 and it's not incrementing.

i can see FW policy matching log and fortiview session traffic.

i created a clone of the FW policy earlier for troubleshooting, place above the original FW policy, allowed any source and destination address, deleted the cloned FW policy after i saw traffic matched, then revert back original FW policy to specific source/destination subnet.

i tried to update statistics and clear counters but to no avail.

is there any other troubleshooting step i can do in order for the FW policy to display increment in the 'bytes' column?

 

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3 replies

BillH_FTNT
Staff
Staff
August 8, 2025

Could you share what is your device and version ?

 

johnlloyd_13
Explorer III
August 8, 2025

disregard.

johnlloyd_13
Explorer III
August 8, 2025

hi,

i got it working by disable/enable the FW policy in the GUI.

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