Fortinet analyzer with PRTG

Monitoring Fortinet devices and solutions offers numerous benefits, especially in enhancing the security, performance, and operational efficiency of an organization's IT infrastructure:

• Threat detection: Proactively identifies malicious activities, vulnerabilities, and anomalies across the network.
• Real-time alerts: Provides instant notifications about security incidents, allowing for swift action to mitigate risks.
• Correlation and analysis: Helps in correlating events across Fortinet devices to detect sophisticated attacks or unusual patterns.
• Unified monitoring: Consolidates data from multiple Fortinet devices (firewalls, switches, access points) into a single dashboard for better visibility.
• Simplified operations: Reduces the complexity of managing and monitoring multiple devices across different locations.
• Network health monitoring: Tracks device performance metrics like CPU usage, bandwidth consumption, and session counts to ensure optimal operation.
• Proactive issue resolution: Identifies potential performance bottlenecks or hardware issues before they escalate.

Fortinet is a multinational corporation that provides cybersecurity solutions, including hardware, software, and services. The company’s portfolio includes:

• FortiGate firewalls: Provides advanced threat protection through features like intrusion prevention systems (IPS), VPN, antivirus, and application control.
• Security Fabric: Fortinet's integrated platform, called the Fortinet Security Fabric, connects various security components to provide a unified and automated defense across an organization.
• Network security: Products include switches, access points, and secure SD-WAN solutions, enabling secure and efficient networking.
• Cloud security: Solutions designed to protect cloud-based applications and environments, including SaaS, public, private, and hybrid clouds.
• Endpoint and device security: Endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools for safeguarding devices against advanced threats.
• Threat intelligence: FortiGuard Labs provides real-time threat intelligence to help its security solutions adapt to emerging cyber threats.

In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.

On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.