Find DHCP assignment on Fortigate Firewall

Here I will show you how to find DHCP assignment on Fortigate Firewall. This procedure has been written for Fortigate 600D Firewall.

If you know the IP address of one host and you want to know his FQDN name ora viceversa if you know the name of one host and you don’t know his IP address, you can find this association in your Fortinet Firewall if you are using it as your DHCP server.

There are few steps to do, login into your fortinet and select the “vDom” where your host should be connected.

vDom Fortigate

Now in the menĂ¹ select Monitor and then DHCP Monitor

DHCP Monitor

Now in the DHCP Monitor page you have a Search form where you can put IP addess or host name you need to finde.

dhcp monitor search

This is a very easy procedure to find DHCP assignment on Fortigate Firewall. I have tested it on Fortigate Firewall 600D relase 6.4.

If you want to learn more, just have a look to the official documentation

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