Technical Note: Log information for Application, Source, Destination and Web Sites not seen in FortiView

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Description

This article concerns a FortiGate running in one-arm sniffer mode. Traffic can be seen in the Traffic log > Sniffer Traffic but there is no log information showing in FortiView for Applications, Sources, Destinations,  or Web Sites.

Solution

Ensure that sniffer-traffic for report-source is enabled by using the CLI:

config report setting
    set report-source forward-traffic sniffer-traffic
end

After enabling sniffer-traffic in report-source information should be seen in FortiView.