Technical Tip: How to delete an IPsec tunnel in FortiGate

[Durga_Ashwath]

Description	This article describes how to delete an IPsec tunnel that was created.
Scope	FortiGate.
Solution	Follow the steps below to delete the IPsec tunnel: Log in to the FortiGate web GUI. Go to VPN -> IPsec Tunnels. Locate the IPsec tunnel to delete. Select the reference icon of the IPsec tunnel to remove. Reference dialog will open. Select each reference, then delete it accordingly. Delete the reference by selecting it. After deleting all of the references, go to the IPsec tunnel and select 'delete' to delete it from the FortiGate configuration. Note: In the case of IPsec tunnel reference to the Sniffer object, see the screenshot below: However, when navigating to sniffer under GUI, there is no related packet sniffer of Tunnel interface associated. The attached screenshot above indicates the sniffer ID of IPsec related is '2', using the below command show/delete the sniffer: config firewall sniffer show  delete 2  end  After the above change, the reference object for the IPsec tunnel should be removed and can be deleted from this related KB article: Technical Tip: How to delete sniffer from CLI