Fortigate firewall Usage quota for policy

[kimhoersted]

Hi,

Is it possible to create a usage quota (either time og amount of data) for a policy.

If you, please advice me how to do this in the gui.

I am using a Fortigate 81E-POE with firmware 7.2.2

Thanks.

/Kim

[srajeswaran]

Can you check if this matches your requirement https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Imposing-data-cap-for-web-access-for-end-u...

[Dhruvin_patel]

Hello Kim,

To create a usage quota for a policy on a FortiGate 81E-PoE with firmware 7.2.2 in the GUI, you can follow these steps:

1. Go to Security Profiles > Web Filter.

2. Create a new web filter profile or edit an existing one.

3. Select "Proxy-based" as the Feature set.

4. In the FortiGuard category based filter section, locate the category you want to set the quota for.

5. Click on the category (e.g., Education) and choose the action (Monitor, Warning, or Authenticate).

6. In the Category Usage Quota section, click on "Create New."

7. In the New/Edit Quota pane, select the Category (e.g., Education).

8. Choose the Quota Type (Time or Traffic) and set the Total quota (e.g., 5 minutes for time or 256MB for traffic).

9. Click OK to save the quota.

10. Configure any other settings as needed and click OK to finalize the web filter profile. This configuration will set a usage quota for the specified category within the policy.

Please note that quotas are reset daily at midnight and are only available in proxy-based inspection mode.

Reference Document: 

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Configuring-user-based-bandwidth-capping/t...

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Imposing-data-cap-for-web-access-for-end-u...

Best Regards!

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[kimhoersted]

Thank you. Can I make this policy to apply on only certain firewall policies?

And do this proxy-based feature require fortigate license?