FORTINET-MIB-280

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Category: Vendor: Fortinet

Description: Fortinet legacy SNMP MIB for firmware version 2.80 providing system, interface, and session management objects for older FortiGate security appliances.

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What Is FORTINET-MIB-280?

FORTINET-MIB-280 is Fortinet's vendor-specific SNMP MIB for legacy firmware version 2.80 running on older FortiGate security appliances (UTM/firewall devices). Per its available description, it centers on basic system identification data such as the device's model number, in keeping with Fortinet's early-generation MIB structure later expanded into much larger modern Fortinet MIB releases. Its stated scope spans system, interface, and session management objects, meaning it would have supported monitoring of appliance identity, network interface status, and active session counts as software/hardware status indicators on the firewall. No dependency on external MIBs is evident from the material available, and it functions as a self-contained legacy Fortinet MIB. It was deployed on FortiGate firewalls running 2.80-era FortiOS firmware, now largely superseded by current Fortinet MIB releases. Engineers can download the FORTINET-MIB-280 file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in FORTINET-MIB-280. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • Fortinet FortiGate security appliance (legacy firmware 2.80)

Monitoring Examples

The available data for this module provides no concrete object names beyond a general "system model number" description, so a specific table/object polling scenario cannot be honestly constructed; in practice such an object would be read to confirm which FortiGate hardware model and firmware generation is deployed, supporting inventory and version tracking rather than a detailed anomaly-detection scenario.

What Can Be Monitored

  • system model identification
Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using fnHaStatsPktCount OID:

Select a Fortinet FortiGate security appliance (legacy firmware 2.80) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type fnHaStatsPktCount into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. Packets Counter of HA Cluster's unit. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Fortinet security appliance management MIB for system and operational status monitoring.

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