Description
This article describes that when HA-direct is enabled, FortiGate uses the HA management interface to send log messages to FortiAnalyzer and remote syslog servers, sending SNMP traps, access to remote authentication servers (for example, RADIUS, LDAP), and connecting to FortiSandbox, or FortiCloud.
Scope
FortiGate: logging, management interface.
Solution
Once the HA management interface has been configured, enable HA-direct globally:
config system ha
set ha-direct enable
end
In many cases, HA-direct can also be enabled only for appropriate features, such as SNMP or an LDAP server configuration. For example, in SNMPv3:
config system snmp user
edit snmpv3-user
set ha-direct enable
next
end
Note:
This setting alters the traffic flow. Enabling it may cause timeouts to occur due to an unresponsive FortiGate. This occurs because the response to a request is sent on a different interface where the packet may not be routed back to the requester, resulting in a request timeout.
