Tips – FortiOS 6.2
Tips Basic features and characteristics of the CLI environment provide support and ease of use for many CLI tasks. Help To display brief help during command entry, press the question mark (?) key....
View ArticleFortiExplorer for iOS – FortiOS 6.2
FortiExplorer for iOS FortiExplorer for iOS is a user-friendly application that helps you to quickly and easily configure, manage, and monitor FortiGate appliances using an iOS device. FortiExplorer...
View ArticleLED specifications – FortiOS 6.2
LED specifications LED status codes For more information about alarms, see About Alarm Levels. LABEL STATE MEANING PWR Green Power is on. Off Power is off. LABEL STATE MEANING STA Green Normal...
View ArticleBasic administration – FortiOS 6.2
Basic administration This section contains information about basic FortiGate administration that you can do after you installing the unit in your network. Registration In order to have full access to...
View ArticleFirmware Management – FortiOS 6.2
Firmware Fortinet periodically updates the FortiGate firmware to include new features and resolve important issues. After you have registered your FortiGate unit, you can download firmware updates from...
View ArticleFortiGuard – FortiOS 6.2
FortiGuard The FortiGuard Distribution Network (FDN) of servers provides updates to antivirus, antispam, and IPS definitions to your FortiGate. FortiGuard Subscription Services provides comprehensive...
View ArticleFortiCloud – FortiOS 6.2
FortiCloud FortiCloud is a hosted security management and log retention service for FortiGate devices. It gives you centralized reporting, traffic analysis, configuration management, and log retention...
View ArticleTroubleshooting your installation – FortiOS 6.2
Troubleshooting your installation If your FortiGate does not function as desired after installation, try the following troubleshooting tips: Check for equipment issues Verify that all network equipment...
View ArticleSecurity Fabric – FortiOS 6.2
Security Fabric The Fortinet Security Fabric provides an intelligent architecture that interconnects discrete security solutions into an integrated whole to detect, monitor, block, and remediate...
View ArticleSecurity Fabric over IPsec VPN – FortiOS 6.2
Security Fabric over IPsec VPN This recipe provides an example of configuring Security Fabric over IPsec VPN. The following sample topology shows a downstream FortiGate (HQ2) connected to the root...
View ArticleFortiView – FortiOS 6.2
FortiView FortiView from disk Prerequisites All FortiGates with an SSD disk. Restrictions Desktop models (for example: under 100D) with SSD only supports five minutes and one hour view. l Medium models...
View ArticleDNS – FortiOS 6.2
DNS Introduction DNS (Domain Name System) is used by devices connecting to the Internet to locate websites by mapping a domain name to a website’s IP address. For example, a DNS server maps the domain...
View ArticleSD-WAN – FortiOS 6.2
SD-WAN SD-WAN is a software-defined approach to managing Wide-Area Networks (WAN). It allows you to offload internetbound traffic, meaning that private WAN services remain available for real-time and...
View ArticleBasic SD-WAN setup – FortiOS 6.2
Basic SD-WAN setup Creating the SD-WAN interface This recipe provides an example of how to start using SD-WAN for load balancing and redundancy. In this example, two ISP internet connections (wan1 and...
View ArticleWAN path control – FortiOS 6.2
WAN path control Performace SLA – link monitoring Performance SLA link monitoring measures the health of links that are connected to SD-WAN member interfaces by sending probing signals through each...
View ArticleSD-WAN traffic shaping and QoS with SD-WAN
SD-WAN traffic shaping and QoS with SD-WAN Use traffic shaper in a firewall shaping policy to control traffic flow. You can use it to control maximum and guaranteed bandwidth, or put certain traffic to...
View Article7060E Blade Replacement Shenanigans
Just talking about some cool shenanigans I ran into while replacing a blade from a 7060E chassis.
View ArticleSDWAN Advanced – FortiOS 6.2.0
Per packet distribution and tunnel aggregation This topic shows an example of how to aggregate IPSec tunnels. This example shows how to make per-packet loadbalancing among IPSec tunnels. For example, a...
View ArticleForward error correction on VPN overlay networks – FortiOS 6.2
Forward error correction on VPN overlay networks This topic shows an SD-WAN with forward error correction (FEC) on VPN overlay networks. FEC can be used to lower packet loss ratio by consuming more...
View ArticleUsing BGP tags with SD-WAN rules – FortiOS 6.2
Using BGP tags with SD-WAN rules SD-WAN rules can use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) learned routes as dynamic destinations. In this example, a customer has two ISP connections, wan1 and wan2. wan1 is...
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