Technical Tip: Paths to be excluded in 3rd party security applications when running FortiClient/FortiSASE agent concurrently
| Description | This article describes the FortiClient path lists to be excluded in third-party security applications and software, such as Antivirus, EDR, and XDR, when running the FortiClient/FortiSASE agent concurrently. The paths apply to both the FortiClient EMS solution and the FortiSASE solution. |
| Scope | FortiClient. |
| Solution | As a best practice, whenever considering running FortiClient/FortiSASE agent in parallel with other third-party security applications such as Antivirus, EDR, and XDR, it is suggested to configure FortiClient folder/file paths in the third-party security application's exclusion list.
This is to prevent any conflict and crashes, performance degradation, false positives and detection, and reduced effectiveness due to overlapping features when they interfere with each other's processes.
Paths to be excluded for MacOS:
/Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fctservctl /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/epctrl /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/ftgdagent /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fmon /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/scanunit /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/vulscan /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fctappfw /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fssoavgent_launchagent /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fssoavgent_launchdaemon /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fctctld /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/sslvpnd /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/racoon /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/racoonctl /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fctupdate /Library/Application Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/bin/fctupgrade /Applications/FortiClient.app/Contents/MacOS/FortiClient /Applications/FortiClient.app/Contents/Resources/runtime.helper/FortiClientAgent.app/MacOS /FortiClientAgent /Applications/FortiClient.app/Contents/Resources/runtime.helper/FortiClientUpdate.app/Contents /MacOS/FortiClientUpdate
/opt/forticlient/* /etc/forticlient/*
Paths to be excluded for Windows:
%ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FCVbltScan.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiAvatar.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\ipsec.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiClient.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiClient_Diagnostic_Tool.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\av_task.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\AzureToken.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\EPCUserAvatar.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\fcappdb.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\fcaptmon.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FCAuth.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FCCOMInt.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FCConfig.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FCDBLog.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FCHelper64.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\fcmonitor.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FctSecSvr.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\fmon.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\fortiae.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiClientConsole.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiClientSecurity.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiElevate.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiESNAC.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\fortifws.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiGuardAgent.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiProxy.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiScand.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiSettings.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiSSLVPNdaemon.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiSSLVPNsys.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiTcs.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiTray.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiUSBmon.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiVPN.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\fortivrs.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiWF.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\FSSOMA.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\scheduler.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\submitv.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\update_task.exe %ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiClient\vcm2.exe %windir%\System32\drivers\fortiapd_74.sys %windir%\System32\drivers\FortiAptFilter_74.sys %windir%\System32\drivers\fortielam.sys %windir%\System32\drivers\FortiFilter.sys %windir%\System32\drivers\fortimon3_74.sys %windir%\System32\drivers\FortiShield_74.sys %windir%\System32\drivers\fortisniff2_74.sys %windir%\System32\drivers\fortitransctrl_74.sys %windir%\System32\drivers\fortiwf2_74.sys
%appdata%\FortiClient |