Threat Feeds Connection Status is 'Unavailable'

This article discusses External Connectors for Threat Feeds like ‘FortiGuard Category Threat Feed’ and ‘Domain Name Threat Feed’ showing the Connection Status as ‘Unavailable’.

Scope

FortiProxy

Solution

The Status ‘Unavailable’ will look like this:

The Status 'Unavailable' will look like this.

The Flow Debug for ‘diag debug application forticron 448’ and ‘diag debug application forticron -1’ and also, Sniffer for Server do not show any outputs.

To fix this issue, restart the FortiCron process using the command below:

fnsysctl killall forticron