Technical Tip: CLI commands to verify status of the FortiGuard service

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Description
This article provides CLI commands to fetch information about the status of the FortiGuard service.

Solution
Below command returns information about the status of the FortiGuard service including the name, version late update, method used for the last update and when the update expires.
This information is shown for the AV Engine, virus definitions, attack definitions, and the IPS attack engine.

Syntax.

# get system fortiguard-service status

Example output.

# get sys fortiguard-service status
NAME               VERSION LAST UPDATE          METHOD    EXPIRE
AV Engine           5.361  2020-10-08 08:27:40  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
Virus Definitions   81.122  2020-10-16 09:39:17  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
Extended set        1.000  2012-10-17 15:46:00  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
Extreme set         1.000  2012-10-17 15:47:00  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
Flow-based Virus Definitions  81.121  2020-10-16 09:39:17  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
Attack Definitions  16.944  2020-10-16 09:39:17  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
Attack Extended Definitions  0.000  2001-01-01 00:00:00  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
IPS Malicious URL Database  2.798  2020-10-15 18:41:58  scheduled 2021-01-17 02:00:00
Botnet Definitions  1.000  2012-05-28 22:51:00  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
IPS/FlowAV Engine   3.558  2020-10-08 08:27:40  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
Application Definitions  16.944  2020-10-16 09:39:17  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00
Industrial Attack Definitions  16.941  2020-10-16 09:39:17  manual    2021-01-17 02:00:00

Use '# diagnose autoupdate versions' command to fetch the same information in detail.