Ever ask yourself why Fortinet makes finding the mac address of a device in a switch such a daunting task? I do. They turned a simple command on Cisco (show mac address-table) into almost a full sentence.
To display the whole MAC table on Fortiswitch managed by Fortigate:
diagnose switch-controller switch-info mac-tableLets say I need to look for the last 4 of the MAC to find exactly where this device plugs into.
diagnose switch-controller switch-info mac-table | grep cc:e1
00:60:6e:ec:cc:e1 port1 1
Now we can see that device is plugged into port 1 of the switch.
Finding mac addresses from the Fortiswitch directly is a bit easier:
diagnose switch mac-address list
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