Monitoring a FortiGate 60D firewall using Nagios XI

[ayoub10]

I have a FortiGate 60D firewall and I want to monitor it using Nagios XI.

can someone help me to do that??

[EEHC]

Monitor means getting updated information. Hence you have to use SNMP. FortiGate is SNMP agent. Nagios XI is an SNMP server. You have to configure community string which is considered the security password for SNMP. When you configure it on both sides, Nagios XI will query FortiGate for the status update. To get a real-time update sent to Nagios XI when the event happens, you have to enable on FortiGate the types of traps to be sent.

SNMP Monitoring With Nagios

https://www.nagios.com/solutions/snmp-monitoring/

How to Configure FortiGate SNMP Agent for Monitoring

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-Configure-FortiGate-SNMP-Agent-for/...

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.0/cookbook/62595/snmp

[Debbie_FTNT]

There is also a Fortinet section on Nagios exchange:

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Network-Gear/Fortinet

There are no official documentations from Fortinet itself regarding Nagios integration though, only more generic guides to implementing SNMP.

[EEHC]

The management systems add documents for integration with well-known products. This is usual and expected. You will find FortiSIEm for example have documents for managing Windows and Linux systems.

But the link you added is very useful.