Technical Tip: Monitoring 'Traffic Shaping'

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Description
Before FortiOS 6.0 it is possible to monitor Traffic shaping under FortiView, but from FortiOS 6.2 adding a widget for traffic shaping in needed.

This article describes how.

Solution
From GUI, go to Dashboard -> Settings and select 'Add Widget'.

Under 'FortiView', select 'FortiView Top N'.

Choose from Drop down 'Traffic Shaping'.

Use the 'Resize' option to adjust the size of the widget to properly see all columns.

It is also possible to check from CLI.

# diagnose firewall shaper traffic-shaper stats <----- To see traffic shaper statistics (combined).
# diagnose firewall shaper traffic-shaper list <----- To see the statistics of all traffic shapers.

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