API-based monitoring for Fortinet FortiManager devices

For Fortinet devices, you can poll edge nodes as API-only nodes. Edge devices can also be polled as SNMP node but we won’t link them to orchestrator in any manner.

• SNMP polling for edge nodes provides basic details. No SD-WAN data is available.

• API-only polling for edge nodes provides both basic details and SD-WAN details.

Use a separate API user for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted to ensure that polling is not affected by the session limit.

Polled Details	API-Only	SNMP
Node details
Node status and response time
IP addresses
MAC addresses
Interfaces
Interface statistics
Interface errors
Interface traffic
CPU & memory load
Volumes
UDT ports
Routing
Topology
SD-WAN details
SD-WAN uplinks
SD-WAN tunnels
SD-WAN tunnel statistics