Description
When there are many Firewall Policies for a specific interface pair, an easy way to see if a policy is actually hit by some traffic is to add the counter field in the GUI.
Scope
All FortiGates
Solution
1. From the GUI, select Firewall, Policy Then [ Column Settings].
2. Add the Count field.
When there are many Firewall Policies for a specific interface pair, an easy way to see if a policy is actually hit by some traffic is to add the counter field in the GUI.
Scope
All FortiGates
Solution
1. From the GUI, select Firewall, Policy Then [ Column Settings].
2. Add the Count field.
3. Now verify that some packets hit
this Policy will be counted (in KB)
Note : For accelerated traffic (ex. NP2 ports), only the start of session packet will be counted, and this counter does therefore not reflect the real traffic count. For non-accelerated traffic, all packets will be counted.
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