Technical Note: FortiGate Traffic based webfilter quota configuration

[anil_nayak_FTNT]

Description

This article provides the commands for FortiGate traffic based webfilter quota configuration.

Solution

Traffic based quota configuration in FortiGate webfilter is available via CLI mode only.

Configure traffic type webfilter quota as per the following command:

config webfilter profile
edit <webfilter-profile-name>
config ftgd-wf
config quota
edit 0
set type traffic
set unit <select unit>
set value <select value>
set category <select>
end
end
end

The following command can be used to obtain the webfilter category information/ID:

# get webfilter categories

Once configured, this can be seen in the GUI under:

security profile > webfilter > profile > under Quota section