FortiGate
FortiGate Next Generation Firewall utilizes purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence security services from FortiGuard labs to deliver top-rated protection and high performance, including encrypted traffic.
adhawan
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Staff
Article Id 247579
Description

This article describes that the debug logs show secondary's external files are not in sync with the primary device.

Scope FortiGate.
Solution

The external files refer to the Signature database, Certificate files, etc, on the FortiGate (Example: AntiVirus/IPS database, local certificates/CA on the appliance).  

 

After running the debug flow commands, if the following output is generated:

 

(root) # secondary's external files are not in sync with the primary's, sequence:0. (type EXTERNAL_RESOURCE)
# secondary's external files are not in sync with the primary's, sequence:1. (type EXTERNAL_RESOURCE
(root) # secondary's external files are not in sync with the primary's, sequence:2. (type EXTERNAL_RESOURCE)
secondary's external files are not in sync with the primary's, sequence:3. (type EXTERNAL_RESOURCE)
secondary's external files are not in sync with the primary's, sequence:4. (type EXTERNAL_RESOURCE)

The above message shows current main/standby devices are not synced, and the system starts to sync them now.


The message is still appearing cause the main side downloads a new file again, which will trigger the new sync cycle.

 

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