FortiGate
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Renante_Era
Staff
Staff
Article Id 274812
Description This article describes how to collect IPS engine debugs.
Scope FortiGate v7.0 and above.
Solution
  1. Show FortiGate stats and memory usages:

get sys status

get system performance status

diagnose hardware sysinfo memory

diagnose sys session stat

diagnose ips session list by-mem 15

diagnose ips session status

diagnose autoupdate version | grep "IPS Attack" -A 6

diagnose ips memory status

diagnose sys top 2 30 4

di sys top-mem 10

di sys top-mem 10

di sys top-mem 10

 

  1.  If the IPS engine's memory usage appears to be higher than normal, then run 'diag sys process pstack $pid' (4 times) to get the pstack for the process.

 

diag sys process pstack <PID with high usage>

fnsysctl cat /proc/$PID/smaps

 

  1. Restart the process.

 

diag sys kill 11 <PID>

 

  1. Get the crash log as well.

 

diagnose debug crashlog read

 

Note:

Additional debugging commands for TAC.

 

diagnose ips debug enable all //instead of "all" you can use from list of categories displayed by pressing "?" after enable

diagnose ips filter set "host x.x.x.x" //x.x.x.x = testing host IP

diagnose debug enable

Disable once done:

diagnose debug reset

diagnose debug disable

 

Note:

Selecting all for the ISP debug will cause high memory usage and can lead to kernel conserve mode as this debug is copying sessions that are inspected by IPS engine which will lead to doubling the amount of sessions.

It is always recommended to specify the type of session on the debug also it is strongly recommended to USD the filtering command 'diagnose ips filter...' unless the goal of the debug is to collect events for all hosts.

 

In the case of IPS profile is assigned to a firewall policy in proxy inspection mode, The recommended live debug commands are:

 

diagnose debug reset

diagnose wad debug enable category [all, http, session ,...] <----- Use question mark '?' to view all available categories.

diagnose wad debug level verbose <----- verbosity level, when troubleshooting it is recommend to use verbose.

diagnose debug console timestamp enable

diagnose debug enable

 

To disable the debug:

 

diagnose debug disable

diagnose debug reset