Monitor WAN and LAN Status

[SecurityPlus]

We would like to utilize network monitoring so that we get a notice if any WAN connection goes off-line. We plan to ping the WAN gateway address(es) to detect if a WAN connection fails. Curious if this is the best way to handle this?

Is there a recommended way to monitor that the LAN is up? If possible I would like to ping the firewall internal address, a network switch, and a computer on the network to be sure the internal network is up and is working. What is recommended to safely accomplish this? Are Virtual IPs (port forwarding) required?

[SecurityPlus]

To verify that the firewall LAN was up would, we set up Virtual IP for the firewall, turn on Ping in administrative access, and set a policy for this connection?

[Fullmoon]

if you have FAZ you can configure event handler in the event your Fortigate interface experience status issue it will notify you/admin

[SecurityPlus]

Thanks. Unfortunately no FortiAnalizer is available at this time.