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gauravpawar
Explorer III
March 10, 2025
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FortiSIEM - Can we deploy fortisiem collector on physical machine

  • March 10, 2025
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Can we install the fortisiem collector on a physical machine, without using virtualization techniques (vmware, hyperv ,kvm etc) and hardware appliance.

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    gauravpawar
    Explorer III
    March 12, 2025

    @Anthony_E   @Secusaurus  can you please help here..

    Secusaurus
    Contributor III
    March 12, 2025

    Hi @gauravpawar,

     

    Unfortunately, I do not know any installation script that can run on a bare machine.

    As every one of the releases is designed for a specific platform, I would assume that just copying the raw data from these images won't work well either.

     

    Best,

    Christian

    NSE8 | Fortinet Advanced MSSP Partner
    premchanderr
    Staff & Editor
    Staff & Editor
    March 14, 2025

    Hi @gauravpawar ,

     

    Unfortunately, there is no more support for deploying Collector on BareMetal.
    Collector image is only designed to be deploy on the designated virual machine.

    If hardware and standalone is require then the FortiSIEM-500F machine is ready to be deployed.

    https://fortinetweb.s3.amazonaws.com/docs.fortinet.com/v2/attachments/1b81f2bc-2436-11e9-b20a-f8bc1258b856/FortiSIEM-500F-Quick-Start-Guide.pdf


    Also I suggest use a windows box and deploy a collector using hyper-v (assuming it's still free with win pro) or some 3rd party KVM solution.

     

    Refer the available installation options under the 'Installation Guides' section of the doc below.
    https://docs.fortinet.com/product/fortisiem/7.3