Monitoring and troubleshooting vpns, Viewing vpn tunnel status – Fortinet FortiGate 4000 User Manual

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IPSec VPN

Monitoring and Troubleshooting VPNs

FortiGate-4000 Installation and Configuration Guide

257

See

“Adding an encrypt policy” on page 251

.

6

Arrange the policies in the following order:
• outbound encrypt policies
• inbound encrypt policy
• default non-encrypt policy (Internal_All -> External_All)

Monitoring and Troubleshooting VPNs

Viewing VPN tunnel status

Viewing dialup VPN connection status

Testing a VPN

Viewing VPN tunnel status

You can use the IPSec VPN tunnel list to view the status of all IPSec AutoIKE key
VPN tunnels. For each tunnel, the list shows the status and the tunnel time out.

To view VPN tunnel status

1

Go to VPN > IPSEC > Phase 2.

2

View the status and timeout for each VPN tunnel.

Figure 75: AutoIKE key tunnel status

Action

ENCRYPT

VPN Tunnel

The VPN tunnel name added in step

1

. (Use the same tunnel for all encrypt

policies.)

Allow inbound Select allow inbound.
Allow outbound Do not enable.
Inbound NAT

Select inbound NAT if required.

Outbound NAT Select outbound NAT if required.

Note: The default non-encrypt policy is required to allow the VPN spoke to access other
networks, such as the Internet.

Status

The status of each tunnel. If Status is Up, the tunnel is active. If Status is

Down, the tunnel is not active. If Status is Connecting, the tunnel is

attempting to start a VPN connection with a remote VPN gateway or client.

Timeout

The time before the next key exchange. The time is calculated by

subtracting the time elapsed since the last key exchange from the keylife.

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