Integrated FortiSwitch Mode

As a follow-up to my last port on setting QoS profiles for FortiSwitch, I stumbled across a useful way to set profiles to individual ports.

WebUI

Like most networking products, there are at least two ways to do just about any task. While my last article focused on the CLI method, actually applying policies to the individual ports can be done using the WebUI. Why is this helpful? The biggest advantage to using the WebUI is speed. With the WebUI, multiple ports can be selected to apply a given action at once.

How to Do It

First, add the QoS Policy option to the displayed columns. You’ll want to be in the “FortiSwitch Ports” view, so navigate to “WiFi & Switch Controller -> FortiSwitch Ports”. Right click on any of the column names to bring up a list of selected and available columns to display. The default view will show things like Description, Native VLAN, Allowed VLANs, Security Policy, Device Information, and POE Status. I find it helpful to add the LLDP Profile and QoS Profile to this view.

With the column(s) added, the port or ports to configure can be selected. A range of ports can be selected by first selecting the top port, then shift selecting the bottom port in the range to highlight everything in the middle. Or, use ctrl/cmd click (for Windows or Mac users, respectively) to select multiple non-adjacent ports. From there, select the QoS Policy name to pop up a window of all available policies, and make your selection.

Notes

It should be noted, this WebUI method only works once the QoS (or LLDP) profiles have been created. To add or change the profiles, the CLI is still the way to go. Also not, there are both ingress and egress settings when QoS comes into play, and this profile setting only sets the egress queuing policy. (See more information about the various QoS policies in last week’s post: Fortinet Fortiswitch QOS Primer) To set the ingress mapping policies (either/or 802.1p and DSCP mapping), that still needs to be done via the CLI as well.

Comments?

As always, I welcome any feedback in the form of questions or comments. If there are specific topics you’d like to see covered, let me know as well! I do expect this to migrate back towards a predominately wireless focused blog … but first, I’m sensing a spanning-tree post coming…. 🙂