FortiSwitch definition?

[nykjell]

Hi

Anyone solved getting forwarding table from a Fortinet Switch?
For example FS-108F, FS124F, FS424F or similar?
 Using version 6.45 and upgrading to 7.2x.

Discovery shows:
Prepare (CLI)  ----------------------------------------------------------------  Tue Oct 11 14:44:59 2022
PREP:Bridge-Forward table unsupported
DISC:Clistatus = unsupported mode fwd

BridgeFwd (SNMP) --------------------------------------------------------------  Tue Oct 11 14:44:59 2022
SNMP:Connect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ********* v2 Tout:11s MaxMS:1472 Retry:1 NB:0
FWDS:Walking BridgeFwd (********)
FWDS:0 bridge forwarding entries found

Best regards,
 /Kjell

[nykjell]

Hi

Nobody using Fortiswitches and NeDi?
We still miss the forwarding/MAC-address table. 
Any hint to solve it would be great.

Best regards,
 /Kjell

[primethios]

I can't say I have ever seen a Fortinet in the wild and I have been working in network specific roles for going on 25 years, but there are a ton of manufacturers out there that provide what you need for the price you want to pay and if you lean towards the marketing side or the physical specs (execs love to hear things like one switch is more security minded than another which is one of Fortinets sales points).  That being said I have numerous customers running Zyxel gear which many other people have never heard of or seen in deployment and I have made them work in NeDi but it took some effort such as using the the "Test OID" slot in defgen and working my way through SNMP walk lower and lower to the base of the OID until I see the data I am looking for, which is more often than not the MAC table in order to see the population reports.  I have had to even go through this with various Cisco switches over the years.  The other thing you can try is downloading the Fortinet MIB file and use a MIB browser to dig about and find the info.  I have used paessler SNMP Tester in the past to pull some of this data