Description | This article describes how to verify the traffic is being inspected by FortiGate when the firewall policy is set to proxy-based inspection using deep inspection. |
Scope | FortiGate. |
Solution |
Firewall policy Configuration:
SSL inspection profile configuration:
The certificate that is used in the custom deep inspection profile is installed on the user's PC as a trusted root authority. For a test visit the website example.com in the browser on user pc.
Use the following debugging command to run WAD debug on FortiGate:
The following WAD debug output shows it matching with firewall policy 1: The below output shows traffic is being inspected using a custom deep inspection SSL profile:
The certificate that is used in the SSL inspection profile and the certificate FortiGate uses for inspection are the same. |
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