The FortiGate Firewall Service Layer

The tests mapped to this layer monitor the following:

• The resource usage of, the network traffic handled by, and the session load on each Fortigate unit in an High Availability Fortigate cluster;
• The current state of user accounts on the firewall;
• The current state of the sensors on the firewall;
• The count of viruses detected and blocked by the firewall
• the number of files scanned by the scan unit of the firewall;
• the statistics of the packets and data that were transmitted/received (processed) for each firewall policy configured on the FortiGate firewall;

• the count of the sessions currently active on the firewall;

Figure 1 : The tests mapped to the Fortigate Firewall Service layer