Technical Tip: Behavior of the Policy Package status of FortiGate after FortiOS upgrade

The picture below shows that the Policy Package status for FortiGate FGVXX is in sync. The FortiOS version is 7.4.8.

The picture below shows that FortiGate has been upgraded from v7.4.8 to v7.4.9:

The picture below shows Policy Package status for FortiGate FGVXX is 'Unknown' after upgrading to v7.4.9:

After a FortiOS upgrade, FortiManager cannot automatically tell if the policy package it has is the same or different, so it sets the status 'unknown'.

The following steps can be performed to set the status of Policy Package to 'synchronized'.

1. Re-import the policy package from FortiGate to FortiManager.
2. Reinstall the policy package on the FortiGate from FortiManager.

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