Description | This article describes the benefits of a FortiGate with a local disk storage space |
Scope | FortiGate 6.x, 7.x, and 7.2.x. |
Solution |
The following are features and benefits that are available only with FortiGate with local disk storage:
1) To enable FortiView from Disk: Enable disk logging from the FortiGate GUI. To include sniffer traffic and local-deny traffic when FortiView from Disk:
# config report setting set report-source forward-traffic sniffer-traffic local-deny-traffic end
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.12/cookbook/520221/fortiview-from-disk
2) To use packet capture, the FortiGate must have a disk. It is possible enable capture-packet in the firewall policy:
3) WAN Optimization requires local storage disk: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-FortiOS-WAN-optimization/ta-p/194029
4) Certain features such as explicit proxy, web caching, and WAN optimization will only be available on models which have a hard disk:
5) Local logging and Reporting: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Local-Reports/ta-p/198272
6) Store-and-upload feature for FortiAnalyzer: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortianalyzer/7.2.1/administration-guide/518361/device-logs
7) FortiGate file quarantine:
8) DLP logging:
9) Using the root FortiGate with disk to store historic user and device information: |
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