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ovishek_birdseyeNew Member

Support Forum

FortiGate 60F – SSL VPN Concurrent User & Licensing Clarification Needed

Hello Everyone,We are planning to deploy a FortiGate 60F firewall with a 1-year Unified Threat Protection (UTP/UDP) license in our environment.Currently, we are already using the device for basic WAF-related tasks, and now we want to enable remote VP

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25 minutes ago

TwoSoulzNew Member

Support Forum

Hub and Spoke (ADVPN+mode-cfg) not working after upgrading to 7.4.9

Hello, used products: FortiGate 80F/FortiGate 400F I have a simple Hub and Spoke Szenario, which works perfectly in 7.4.8 and less. If I upgrade my spoke to 7.4.9 I can't establish my VPN any more. Spoke says: ike V=root:0:vp

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31 minutes ago

school-adminVisitor III

Support Forum

Using multiple wildcard certificates with "Protecting SSL server"

The documentation states you can define multiple certificates in an SSL profile in replace mode and it will compare the server name identification (SNI) and the common name (CN) with the certificate list in the SSL profile, and use the matched certif

SerzhanNew Member

Fortimail 8.0 not working final url

Hello, I have a question regarding the “final URL inspection” improvements mentioned in recent FortiMail updates. According to the release information/documentation, FortiMail should now be able to: * resolve redirects,* analyze the final destination

345New Member

FG-FAZ no connectivity issue

Hello,I need help about our issue with connectivity FG<->FAZ. We are currently troubleshooting connectivity between a FortiGate 200G and a FortiAnalyzer VM.Environment overview:FortiGate 200G running in multi-VDOM modeDedicated management inter

TipuNew Member

I have installed virtual box vm, but I can't work on web portal because of showing license issue.

How can I solve these problems?

willy007Visitor III

FortiGate VM cannot retrieve FortiManager serial number – FMG 7.6.6

Hello everyone,I am currently experiencing an issue integrating a FortiGate VM with a FortiManager VM (version 7.6.6).When trying to authorize the FortiManager from the FortiGate GUI, I receive the following error:"Could not connect to the FortiManag

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5 hours ago

mbasExplorer

Support Forum

It is not possible to delete rogue devices from the FortiNAC database if there are too many

Hi all, I am installing FortiNAC in a large environment and I added the Aruba WLC to FortiNAC without any issues. 3 days later, FortiNAC performed L2 pooling and discovered over 400,000 rogue hosts. After that, I disabled L2 pooling for the WLC, whic

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9 hours ago

RolandBaumgaertner72New Member

Support Forum

Moving from SSL VPN to IPSec and IKE V2 and NO CHANCE AT ALL - whats wrong, why removing SSL VPN

Hi there,I have been struggling for months to replace SSL VPN with IPsec. We have a production environment with a 90G running 7.4.5 (we cannot change the OS yet because we still have not been able to migrate successfully to IPsec) and around 100 remo

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11 hours ago

Caradepau1988New Member

Support Forum

Fortinet FW Lab using VMware Workstation

I have set up a lab following Keith over at CBT Nuggets. I followed him step by step. When I power on FW1 -FW4 when I go through the initial setup I input admin for login and leave blank for the password and keep getting Login incorrect. Is there som

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11 hours ago

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ovishek_birdseyeNew Member

Support Forum

FortiGate 60F – SSL VPN Concurrent User & Licensing Clarification Needed

Hello Everyone,We are planning to deploy a FortiGate 60F firewall with a 1-year Unified Threat Protection (UTP/UDP) license in our environment.Currently, we are already using the device for basic WAF-related tasks, and now we want to enable remote VP

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25 minutes ago

school-adminVisitor III

Support Forum

Using multiple wildcard certificates with "Protecting SSL server"

The documentation states you can define multiple certificates in an SSL profile in replace mode and it will compare the server name identification (SNI) and the common name (CN) with the certificate list in the SSL profile, and use the matched certif

SerzhanNew Member

Fortimail 8.0 not working final url

Hello, I have a question regarding the “final URL inspection” improvements mentioned in recent FortiMail updates. According to the release information/documentation, FortiMail should now be able to: * resolve redirects,* analyze the final destination

345New Member

FG-FAZ no connectivity issue

Hello,I need help about our issue with connectivity FG<->FAZ. We are currently troubleshooting connectivity between a FortiGate 200G and a FortiAnalyzer VM.Environment overview:FortiGate 200G running in multi-VDOM modeDedicated management inter

TipuNew Member

I have installed virtual box vm, but I can't work on web portal because of showing license issue.

How can I solve these problems?

willy007Visitor III

FortiGate VM cannot retrieve FortiManager serial number – FMG 7.6.6

Hello everyone,I am currently experiencing an issue integrating a FortiGate VM with a FortiManager VM (version 7.6.6).When trying to authorize the FortiManager from the FortiGate GUI, I receive the following error:"Could not connect to the FortiManag

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5 hours ago

mbasExplorer

Support Forum

It is not possible to delete rogue devices from the FortiNAC database if there are too many

Hi all, I am installing FortiNAC in a large environment and I added the Aruba WLC to FortiNAC without any issues. 3 days later, FortiNAC performed L2 pooling and discovered over 400,000 rogue hosts. After that, I disabled L2 pooling for the WLC, whic

131

9 hours ago

RolandBaumgaertner72New Member

Support Forum

Moving from SSL VPN to IPSec and IKE V2 and NO CHANCE AT ALL - whats wrong, why removing SSL VPN

Hi there,I have been struggling for months to replace SSL VPN with IPsec. We have a production environment with a 90G running 7.4.5 (we cannot change the OS yet because we still have not been able to migrate successfully to IPsec) and around 100 remo

150

11 hours ago

Caradepau1988New Member

Support Forum

Fortinet FW Lab using VMware Workstation

I have set up a lab following Keith over at CBT Nuggets. I followed him step by step. When I power on FW1 -FW4 when I go through the initial setup I input admin for login and leave blank for the password and keep getting Login incorrect. Is there som

bahaa33New Member

Hello everyone,I have a newly deployed FortiGate firewall with an active license.I would like to separate the internet path used by the FortiGate itself (FortiGuard updates, DNS, NTP, firmware checks, etc.) from the internet path used by LAN users ac

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13 hours ago

kyozloveyou_FTNTStaff

FortiGate

Technical Tip: Board failover tolerance in FortiGate Chassis

Description This article describes the option to reduce HA failover on FortiGate 6000/7000 when worker blades are down. Scope FortiGate 6K/7K Chassis. Solution When chassis FPM/FPCs are down, the HA failover will happen as per the article bel

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13 hours ago

ppatelStaff & Editor

FortiGate

Technical Tip: Enable path MTU discovery (PMTU)

Description This article describes how to enable path MTU (PMTU) discovery on Fortigate self-originated traffic. Scope FortiGate. Solution On 5.6 and 6.0 FortiOS lines, by default, any self-originated traffic from FortiGate (including pr

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17 hours ago

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Anonymous_UserNew Contributor III

Customer Service

Customer Service Tip: Product Life Cycle Information on Fortinet products

Description   This article describes how to check the product life cycle (end of order date, last service extension date, end of support date) for hardware and software.   ScopeAll Fortinet Products. Solution   Access the Product Life

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20 hours ago

aelkadiStaff

FortiWeb

Technical Tip: How to create a user admin group on FortiWeb using REST API

DescriptionThis article describes how to create a user admin group on FortiWeb using the REST API.ScopeFortiWeb.SolutionBefore issuing the API call, generate a Base64-encoded token for the Authorization header. This token is used to authenticate with

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21 hours ago

srajeswaranStaff

FortiGate

Technical Tip: How to upgrade FortiGate firmware using the REST API

DescriptionThis article describes how to upgrade FortiGate firmware programmatically usingthe REST API, covering authentication options, firmware upload, and post-upgradeverification.ScopeFortiGate.SolutionThe FortiGate REST API provides a monitor en

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23 hours ago

rmetzgerStaff

FortiGate

Technical Tip: Setting priority on static default routes to create a primary (preferred) and a secondary path

Description   This article outlines specific scenarios where, due to Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) considerations, the FortiGate must maintain two default static routes across two external interfaces. However, this setup must adhere to the follo

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23 hours ago

anovaStaff

FortiWeb

Technical Tip: How to retrieve content routing elements from HTTP Content Routing Policy using REST API

DescriptionThis article describes how to collect HTTP content routing details using the REST API on FortiWeb.Scope FortiWeb.SolutionBefore issuing the API call, a token for the 'Authorization' header is needed using base64. This is to pass the authen

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23 hours ago

srahmatStaff

FortiPhish

Troubleshooting Tip: Unable to import users in FortiPhish using the CSV file

DescriptionThis article describes how to troubleshoot issues when importing users in FortiPhish recipients using the CSV file.ScopeFortiPhish.SolutionWhen importing users using the CSV file by following the provided CSV template, it shows error as pe

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1 day ago

jalejoFTNTStaff

FortiManager

Technical tip: FortiManager ADOM best practices

DescriptionThis article describes some ADOM best practices on FortiManager.ScopeFortiManager.SolutionBefore upgrades:Install any pending device settings and policy package changes, or retrieve the device configuration.After installation, make sure po

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1 day ago

kmakStaff

FortiADC

Technical Tip: How to expand FortiADC-VM logdisk size

DescriptionThis article describes the steps to expand FortiADC-VM logdisk size.ScopeFortiADC, FortiADC-VM.SolutionPrerequisite:Log in access to the Virtualization host server.The logdisk size cannot be reduced after expansion.Steps: The FortiADC-VM h

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