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Description

 

This article describes how to display the list of current running packet captures.

Note that running packet captures or sniffers issued through CLI (applet or SSH connection) cannot be displayed.

 

Scope

 

FortiOS.

 

Solution

 

FortiOS can display/start/stop/remove captured data, for the current packet captures with the following commands:

 

diagnose on-demand-sniffer list

diagnose on-demand-sniffer start <name>

diagnose on-demand-sniffer stop <name>

diagnose on-demand-sniffer delete-results <name>

 

Usage shown below:

 

packet capture.png

 

Related documents:

Troubleshooting Tip: Packet Capture on FortiOS GUI

Embed real-time packet capture and analysis tool on Diagnostics page