Technical Tip: Benefits of FortiGates with local disk storage space

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Description	This article describes the benefits of a FortiGate with local disk storage space.
Scope	FortiGate v6.x, v7.x, and v7.2.x.
Solution	The following are features and benefits that are available only with FortiGate with local disk storage: To enable FortiView from Disk: Enable disk logging from the FortiGate GUI. To include sniffer traffic and local-deny traffic when FortiView from Disk: FortiView from disk FortiOS 6.2 FortiView from disk FortiOS 7.6  config report setting     set report-source forward-traffic sniffer-traffic local-deny-traffic end Using FortiView for historical information requires disk logging or remote logging: Historical FortiView Charts  To use packet capture, the FortiGate must have a disk. It is possible to enable capture-packet in the firewall policy: Performing a sniffer trace or packet capture. WAN Optimization requires a local storage disk: Technical Tip: FortiOS WAN optimization. Certain features, such as explicit proxy, web caching, and WAN optimization, will only be available on models that have a hard disk. Technical Tip: Explicit Proxy, web caching and WAN optimization features not showing on supported Fo.... Local logging and Reporting: Technical Tip: Local Reports. Store-and-upload feature for FortiAnalyzer: Device logs. FortiGate file quarantine and quarantine file download: Technical Tip: How to configure FortiGate file quarantine. DLP logging: DLP log support for CEF Using the root FortiGate with disk to store historic user and device information: FortiOS v6.4.0 new features guide (Page 50). The Audit Trail feature of Workflow Management in the FortiGate requires disk logging: Add Policy change summary and Policy expiration to Workflow Management. Tracking rolling historic records of LDAP user logins: Tracking LDAP user logins  In FortiOS 7.4.5 and later, the graph under Assets and Identities will not display unless the FortiGate has internal storage  Note: To verify whether a particular FortiGate model supports local storage, refer to the hardware model nomenclature. Models ending with the digit '1' are equipped with internal hard disks (Local storage). Examples: FortiGate-30G: Does not include local hard disk storage. FortiGate-31G: Equipped with local hard disk storage. FortiGate-400E: Does not include local hard disk storage. FortiGate-401E: Equipped with local hard disk storage. The user can use the CLI to verify: diagnose hardware device disk FortiGate 81E has a local storage disk: FortiGate 80E has no local storage disk: The user can also use the following CLI content to check the system log hard disk status: get system status FortiGate 81E has a log hard disk: FortiGate 80E has no log hard disk: For detailed specifications and confirmation, refer to the official Fortinet hardware documentation (datasheet) corresponding to each model.

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For detailed specifications and confirmation, refer to the official Fortinet hardware documentation (datasheet) corresponding to each model.