Finding Fortiguard Category Number (For FortiOS 5.0)

FortiOS 4.x

FortiOS 4.x has category number published here - http://kb.fortinet.com/kb/documentLink.do?externalID=FD30715. As of this writing, this is not applicable to FortiOS 5.x because there is no “explanation text” as describe.

Step 1

Enable cli debugging

config vdom

edit VUWF101

diag debug cli 8

diag debug enable

Step 2

Turned on “monitor” on the category one at a time.  Click Apply

Step 3.

Part of the CLI debug output would identify the corresponding category number.

0: config webfilter profile

0: edit "test2"

0: config ftgd-wf

0: config filters

0: edit 2

0: set category 19

0: end

0: end

0: end

In this case, Freeware and Software Download is category number 19