Bluetooth Low Energy scan

The FortiGate can configure FortiAP Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) scan, incorporating Google's BLE beacon profile known as Eddystone, used to identify groups of devices and individual devices. To see which FortiAP models support BLE scanning, refer to the FortiAP Data Sheets.

Use the following syntax to configure BLE profiles and BLE report intervals, and assign BLE profiles to WTP profiles.

Configure BLE profiles - CLI syntax

config wireless-controller ble-profile

edit <name>

set comment <comment>

set advertising {ibeacon | eddystone-uid | eddystone-url}

set ibeacon-uuid <uuid>

set major-id <0 - 65535> - (default = 1000)

set minor-id <0 - 65535> - (default = 1000)

set eddystone-namespace <10-byte namespace>

set eddystone-instance <device id>

set eddystone-url <url>

set txpower <0 - 12> - (default = 0)

set beacon-interval <40 - 3500> - (default = 100)

set ble-scanning {enable | disable} - (default = disable)

next

end

Note that txpower determines the transmit power level on a scale of 0-12:

0: -21 dBm	1: -18 dBm	2: -15 dBm	3: -12 dBm	4: -9 dBm
5: -6 dBm	6: -3 dBm	7: 0 dBm	8: 1 dBm	9: 2 dBm
10: 3 dBm	11: 4 dBm	12: 5 dBm

Configure BLE report intervals - CLI syntax

config wireless-controller timers

set ble-scan-report-intv - (default = 30 sec)

end

Assign BLE profiles to WTP profiles - CLI syntax

config wireless-controller wtp-profile

edit <name>

set ble-profile <name>

next

end