Check your Fortinet devices with PRTG
View all your Fortinet products and enjoy the benefits of a unified monitoring solution
Get insights into the system health & VPN connections of your FortiGate firewalls out-of-the-box
Get alerts as soon as your Fortinet solution
identifies a security risk
Detect changes in network traffic instantly and avoid performance bottlenecks
Check the status of your Fortinet products anywhere and anytime with the PRTG mobile app
How Fortinet and PRTG work together
NetFlow is a protocol for collecting, aggregating and recording traffic flow data in a network. NetFlow data provide a more granular view of how bandwidth and network traffic are being used than other monitoring solutions, such as SNMP. NetFlow was developed by Cisco and is embedded in Cisco’s IOS software on the company’s routers and switches and has been supported on almost all Cisco devices since the 11.1 train of Cisco IOS Software.
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Fortinet is a leader in infrastructure security solutions. PRTG by Paessler is a network monitoring tool. You can integrate Fortinet’s great security solutions into PRTG Network Monitor. See the benefits of the synergy between Fortinet and PRTG and the added value you’ll receive.
The Fortinet solutions offer a wide spectrum of security coverage. The Fortigate firewall, the flagship product of this corporation, is the hardware that should receive the highest attention when monitoring. Different security functions can be activated by software configuration, making this device a key component in the security role of the network.
Fortinet’s product catalogue is wide. They offer solutions for the security of:
- Network
- Data Center
- Wireless or wire access
- Infrastructure
- Content
- Endpoint
- Applications
One of Fortinet’s greatest advantages is that the devices support the most common protocols: SNMP, SNMP Traps, Syslog and NetFlow. All of them offer valuable and complementary information. To make the greatest use of the provided security services it is important to have an automated solution that ensures that everything is working perfectly. When something goes wrong, the IT admin should be promptly informed, so they can take care of the problem as soon as possible and hence assure the highest service level.
PRTG does not only alarm your IT admins that something is wrong, but it also guarantees that you are enjoying all the benefits of Fortigate while delivering the best ROI.
Reasons for integrating Fortinet into PRTG
How PRTG defines sensors
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, e.g. the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, the free space of a disk drive. On average you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
Paessler already has a lot of experience with integrating Fortinet into PRTG. Here are the reasons why so many of our customers use both products:
Many protocols provided
Fortinet offers the protocols SNMP, SNMP Traps, Syslog, and NetFlow on their devices. They are easily configured and integrated.
Preconfigured FortiGate sensors in PRTG
PRTG comes with sensors for monitoring your FortiGate firewalls out-of-the-box. The FortiGate System Statistics sensor monitors CPU and memory usage, sessions, uptime, as well as the conserver mode of a FortiGate firewall. The FortiGate VPN Overview sensor (BETA) monitors VPN connections of the FortiGate system, for example, the number of connected SSL clients.
What's more: Fortinet has a very good documentation of their MIB files so that it is very easy to create custom sensors in PRTG for monitoring your Fortinet devices the way you need.
Constant overview
With PRTG it is possible to see all sensors, regardless of the protocol they use, in one interface. Therefore, IT admins are alerted when something goes wrong instantly.
Get different insight levels
The variety of protocols allows to gain different insight levels:
- Through SNMP you get information about availability, performance, and network traffic of your devices and about the status and performance of your servers.
- With NetFlow you dive into the traffic details and do some analysis of bandwidth consumption.
- The SNMP Traps keep you informed about critical aspects of the device or service, for example: internal high temperatures.
- With Syslog you stay up to date on critical events that the device detects, like changes on the configuration of the device.
Individual reporting
With PRTG Network Monitor you customize the information that will be received and stored. You can build a time frame report containing enough analytic information to observe behavior patterns, detect unusual behavior, and predict for any networking resource saturation.
PRTG makes your job easier
Our monitoring software frees you to focus on other tasks by promptly notifying you of potential issues.
Save effort
PRTG gives you one central monitoring tool for your servers and entire network. Enjoy a quick overview of your whole infrastructure via our dashboard and app.
Save time
Getting started with PRTG is a breeze. Setting up or switching from another network monitoring tool is easy thanks to the auto-discovery and pre-configured device templates.
Save money
80% of our customers report substantial cost savings with network monitoring. Your costs of licenses will likely pay for themselves within weeks.
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“Fantastic network and infrastructure monitoring solution that is easy to deploy and easier still to use. Simply the best available.”
“Software is absolutely perfect, Support is superior. Meets all needs and requirements, this is a must have solution if you are needing any form of monitoring.”
“The tool excels at its primary focus of being a unified infrastructure management and network monitoring service.”
This is why PRTG Fortinet Analyzer is the right tool
Use the PRTG FortiGate sensors to monitor system health metrics & the VPN connections of your FortiGate firewalls out-of-the-box
Get the benefits of the Fortinet multiprotocol visibility at one glance
Be promptly informed on any availability or security issue detected by the Fortinet solutions
Take a granular control of the Fortinet traffic to avoid performance bottlenecks
Know how Fortinet solution interacts with the other network components
Via app, gain anywhere-anytime access of the Fortinet to check the service level.
Steve Coppin, Oxford University
“I particularly like having breakfast at home and just surveying my domain, and understanding what's working and what isn't.”
Create innovative solutions with Paessler’s IT partners
Partnering with innovative IT vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.
With the combination of PRTG and Insys, the monitoring specialist Paessler and the industrial gateway manufacturer INSYS icom offer a practical possibility to merge IT and OT.
INSYS icom
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Over 95% of our customers say yes!
Paessler AG conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins.
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
PRTG: The Swiss Army knife for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
Learn more about PRTG
Printer Monitoring: With PRTG you know the status of every printer. See detailed printer error messages at a glance and get informed if printer replacement is necessary.
PRTG checks your hard disks and displays all memory capacities on one dashboard. Monitoring of NAS devices of vendors like Synology or Storage Area Networks (SAN) is also possible.
CPU Load Monitoring: Record CPU usage over longer periods of time. Prompt overload alerts help you act quickly and minimize risks.
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Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
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PRTG |
Network Monitoring Software - Version 23.1.82.2175 (March 1st, 2023) |
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Hosting |
Download for Windows and cloud-based version PRTG Hosted Monitor available |
Languages |
English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese |
Pricing |
Up to 100 sensors for free (Price List) |
Unified Monitoring |
Network devices, bandwidth, servers, applications, virtual environments, remote systems, IoT, and more |
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