Monitoring a Fortigate Firewall from Centreon

In this post we will see how to monitor our Fortigate firewalls from a Centreon or Nagios or whatever we have 🙂. We will do it through SNMP queries and we will be able to know the status of its chassis at all times, the status of the cluster if we have one, the use and consumption of network interfaces, if we have VPNs the same, know if they fall, The sessions, etc, etc… if you have a Fortigate, This is your post!

Emulating a WAN with WANem

WANem will serve us to emulate wide area networks or WAN's 😉 full name is Wide Area Network emulator, is a free product of Sourceforge, we can download it in ISO to install on a computer or in virtual appliance format to mount it on a VMware machine. Thanks to this application we will be able to emulate a WAN to test a product/technology in our laboratories, The good thing is that it can be parameterized quite thoroughly.