FortiGate Next Generation Firewall utilizes purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence security services from FortiGuard labs to deliver top-rated protection and high performance, including encrypted traffic.
This article describes CLI commands to fetch information about the status of the FortiGuard auto-update service.
Scope
FortiOS.
Solution
The following command returns information about the status of the auto-update service including the FDN availability, scheduling option, tunneling option, and if it is updated, as well as the virus response IPS definition. If availability is shown, information will be provided about the last successful update or unsuccessful attempt.
Syntax:
get system auto-update status
Example output: get sys auto-update status FDN availability: available at Tue Oct 15 16:40:21 2024 last successful time: Tue Oct 15 16:40:21 2024 Scheduled update: enable Virus definitions update: enable IPS definitions update: enable Web proxy tunneling: disable
To verify connectivity to the FortiGuard servers and ensure the FortiGate device is correctly resolving DNS, use the following commands to ping the specified hostnames:
