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Aleem
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October 7, 2025
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How to get SNMP on Transparent / Non-Management VDOM on FortiOS 7.4.8

  • October 7, 2025
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I have two VDOMs (excluding root / global). 1 is called VDOM_TP which is the VDOM configured in transparent mode and the other is VDOM_ROUTER. For this case I will not be referring to VDOM_ROUTED. I have an SNMP server which needs to receive SNMP traffic from my firewall. I have added the same management IP which I configured when making my firewall transparent.


I am able to use the same management ip for https and ssh and although I have enabled snmp on the same interface as https and ssh, I am not able to get snmp traffic. I have tried using nmap and found that port 161 is  block. So this is not an issue of snmp community/user. I saw a fix but it was applicable to V7.6+ so I was wondering if there's a fix for this specific version?  

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ozkanaltas
Valued Contributor III
October 7, 2025

Hello @Aleem,

 

Do you use a trusted host for your administrator user? If you say yes, you should add the monitoring tool ip address on the trusted host configuration.  

 

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-SNMP-access-to-FortiGate/ta-p/210328

 

 

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