Monitoring Fortigate Switch

eG Enterprise has developed a dedicated Fortigate Switch monitoring model which periodically checks the resource utilization pattern of the switch and the traps sent by the switch.

Figure 1 : The layer model of Fortigate Switch

Every layer of Figure 1 is mapped to a variety of tests which connect to the SNMP MIB of the target Fortigate Switch to collect critical statistics pertaining to its performance. The metrics reported by these tests enable administrators to answer the following questions:

• Are there too many trap events generated for the target switch? If yes, which type of traps events were frequently generated?

• Is the disk of the target switch running out of space?

• Is there a sudden spike in the CPU utilization of the target switch?

• Is abnormal memory utilization patterns noticed on the target switch?