Graceful shut down for fortinet

[sushil]

Hi, a customer of mine looking for power backup solution where in case of power outage the servers and network equipment goes down by setting up certain threshold. So we zero in on APC with snmp card where server can be shut down gracefully.But what about other network equipment like fortigate.Can this be done or not? Any input on this. Reg, Sushil

[g3rman]

SNMP on the Fortinet is read-only (as it should be for any firewall :). The only way would be a command line script.

[emnoc]

Do you really need to gracefully shutdown the fortigate down? We aren' t really talking about a open file-system thats needs to be uumounted or closed.

[rwpatterson]

Maybe FAZs and HDD models...

[sushil]

Emnoc will that not be a problem if it goes down unexpectedlly?It is 80C and don' t have hdd. G3man..Can you suggest me a script.Say if battery backup of UPS is about to exhaust then the FG shuts down automatically. Reg, Sushil

[emnoc]

I don' t, I have only one HD model and so far nothing been broken from not shutting it down. I maintain about4 FWF60B thru out some SMB operations and they almost never been shutdown. Gracefull would be the perferred means for shutting it off, but it so far has not made any issues for me.

[#7]

Something like this should do the trick

 #!/usr/bin/expect -f
 set timeout 60
 spawn ssh admin@1.1.1.1
 expect “password: $”
 set send_slow {1 0.05}
 send -s “password\r”
 send_user “password\r”
 send -s " execute shutdown\n" 
 send -s " y\n" 
 interact
 

[sushil]

Will it respond to battery threshold set using snmp card in ups and execute shutdown?