Advanced
The System Settings > Advanced menu enables you to configure SNMP, meta field data, and other settings. The following options are available:
SNMP Select to configure FortiGate and FortiManager reporting through SNMP traps. See SNMP .
Mail server Select to configure mail server settings for alerts, edit existing settings, or delete mail servers. See Mail server.
Syslog server Select to configure syslog server settings for alerts, edit existing settings, or delete syslog servers.See Syslog server.
Meta fields Select to configure metadata fields for FortiGate objects, and for FortiGate-5000 series shelf managers. See Meta fields
Device log settings Select to configure log settings and access. See Device log settings. This menu is available when FortiAnalyzerFeatures is enabled.
File management FortiManager allows you to configure automatic deletion of device log files, quarantined files, reports, and content archive files after a set period of time. See File management. This menu is available when FortiAnalyzerFeatures is enabled.
Advanced settings Select to configure global advanced settings such as offline mode, device synchronization settings and install interface policy only; see Advanced settings.
Portal users Select to create web portal users for FortiManager APIs.
SNMP
SNMP is a method for a FortiManager system to monitor and report on FortiGate devices. It also can allow you to monitor a FortiManager system on your local computer. You will need an SNMP agent on your computer to read the SNMP information.
Using SNMP, your FortiManager system checks the attached FortiGate devices for their system health, traffic levels, and many other details. By default when a FortiGate device is initially configured on your FortiManager system, that FortiGate device’s SNMP settings are configured to report to the FortiManager system.
Go to System Settings > Advanced > SNMP to configure your FortiManager system’s SNMP settings.
SNMP has two parts – the SNMP agent or the device that is sending traps, and the SNMP manager that monitors those
traps. The SNMP communities on the monitored FortiGate devices are hard coded and configured by the FortiManager system – they are not user configurable.
The FortiManager SNMP implementation is read-only — SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 compliant SNMP manager applications, such as those on your local computer, have read-only access to FortiManager system information and can receive FortiManager system traps.
Configuring the SNMP agent
The SNMP agent sends SNMP traps that originate on the FortiManager system to an external monitoring SNMP manager defined in one of the FortiManager SNMP communities. Typically an SNMP manager is an application on a local computer that can read the SNMP traps and generate reports or graphs from them.
The SNMP manager can monitor the FortiManager system to determine if it is operating properly, or if there are any critical events occurring. The description, location, and contact information for this FortiManager system will be part of the information an SNMP manager will have — this information is useful if the SNMP manager is monitoring many devices, and it will enable faster responses when the FortiManager system requires attention.
Go to System Settings > Advanced > SNMP to configure the SNMP agent.
SNMP configuration