Check current bandwidth of Fortiswitch port

One very cool setting through CLI is to get the actual live bandwidth of the a port. You can do this to check uplink status, or just make sure you are not over saturating things.

You can do this by connecting into CLI of the Fortiswitch through the Fortigate. Here you can run this command:

dia switch physical-ports linerate

You can do the above command to get all port usage, and it updates every second, or put a specific port in. For example:

dia switch physical-ports linerate port49

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