Telecom Discovery via Fortinet SD-WAN
The Service Graph Connector for Fortinet provides a telecom-aware integration that imports real-time network inventory data from the Fortinet network management system into the Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This integration enhances visibility and management of network resources.
Key benefits
- Accurate inventory synchronization: Automatically populate the CMDB with up-to-date physical and logical inventory from Fortinet using secure, REST API-based ingestion. SD-WAN devices, interface cards, ports, slots, and logical connections are included.
- Telecom-aware CI modeling: Model your network infrastructure in a telecom-aligned format using purpose-built CI classes and relationships. The connector promotes an accurate representation of devices and their dependencies that mirrors your network topology.
- Simplified and Guided setup: Reduce time-to-value with a built-in guided setup that walks you through connection configuration, data source management, and import scheduling with ease.
- Flexible discovery options: Choose how and when to run discovery. Apply custom filters by device IP or name.
Fortinet SD-WAN architecture
- FortiPortal: A cloud-based service through which you register for Fortinet accounts and manage their licenses.
- FortiManager: A centralized management solution used to oversee and manage SD-WAN networks.
- FortiAnalyzer: A security analytics and reporting tool that collects and analyzes logs from Fortinet devices to identify potential security threats and conformance issues. Alerts are sent through a preconfigured webhook, and metrics are retrieved through API calls.
Fortinet APIs use JSON-RPC to enable programmatic interaction with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer for bulk configuration, device management, and inventory collection.
The following infographic illustrates the architecture of the Fortinet Service Graph Connector.
CMDB Integrations Dashboard
The Integration Commons for CMDB application provides a dashboard with a central view of the status, processing results, and processing errors of all installed Service Graph Connectors. The dashboard displays metrics for all integration runs. You can filter the view to a specific integration, time duration, or integration run. For more details about monitoring integrations in the CMDB Integrations Dashboard, see Integration Commons for CMDB.