FortiGuard Management The FortiGuard Distribution Network (FDN) provides FortiGuard services for your FortiManager system and its managed devices and FortiClient agents. The FDN is a world-wide network of FortiGuard Distribution Servers (FDS) which update the FortiGuard services on your FortiManager system on a regular basis so that your FortiManager system […]
Central VPN Console When Central VPN Console is selected for VPN Management when creating an ADOM, a VPN Console tree menu item will appear in the Policy & Objects tab under Policy Package. You will need to enable the Show VPN Console option in System Settings > Admin > Admin […]
Device Configurations The FortiManager system maintains a configuration repository to manage device configuration revisions. After modifying device configurations, you can save them to the FortiManager repository and install the modified configurations to individual devices or device groups. You can also retrieve the current configuration of a device, or revert a […]
FortiManager Wizards The FortiManager Device Manager tab provides you with device and installation wizards to aid you in various administrative and maintenance tasks. Using these tools can help you shorten the amount of time it takes to do many common tasks. FortiManager offers four wizards: Add device wizard Discover: The […]
Provisioning Templates The Provisioning Templates section of the Device Manager tree menu provides configuration options for System templates, WiFi templates, Threat Weight templates, FortiClient templates, and Certificate templates. Provisioning templates Select the ADOM from the drop-down list and select Provisioning Templates in the tree menu. System templates System templates The […]
Workflow Mode Workflow mode is a new global mode to define approval or notification workflow when creating and installing policy or object changes. Workflow mode is enabled via the CLI only. When workflow mode is enabled, an administrator with the appropriate workflow permissions will be able to approve or reject […]
Fortinet Management Theory FortiManager is an integrated platform for the centralized management of products in a Fortinet security infrastructure. A FortiManager provides centralized policy-based provisioning, configuration and update management for FortiGate (including FortiGate, FortiWiFi, and FortiGate VM), FortiCarrier, FortiSwitch, and FortiSandbox devices. To reduce network delays and minimize external Internet […]
