Skip to main content
mhdganji
mhdganji
Explorer III
June 20, 2022
Solved

cloning policies and objects between two different firewalls

  • June 20, 2022
  • 1 reply
  • 2115 views

Hi,

 

I need to replace the old firewall with a new one (let's assume from a 200F (v 6.4.7) to a 400E (v7.0.5) ) and AFAIK, the backup can only be restored from devices with the same model and FortiOS.

 

In my example, is there anyway to copy the config and correct the missing/conflicting parts?

It will be outstanding if I can even clone the same rules and policies on the new firewall and do the rest of config manually (lots of objects and policies are present on the old one)

 

Regards,

    Best answer by jintrah_FTNT

    Hi,

    Another option may be to manually convert the configs to match that for new device, please see Technical Tip: How to load/convert a FortiGate con... - Fortinet Community

     

    Best regards,

    Jin

    1 reply

    jintrah_FTNT
    Staff
    jintrah_FTNT
    Staff
    June 20, 2022

    Hi,

     

    If the config is huge containing a lot of policies and objects, I would recommend using a FortiConverter tool, Firewall Migration Tool - FortiConverter (fortinet.com)

     

    Best regards,

    Jin

      mhdganji
      mhdganjiAuthor
      Explorer III
      June 20, 2022

      Hi,

      Not huge enough to spend $3k on it ...

      Any free version for under 500 polices, 500 objects (My size approximately)

      and also any scripting, migrating, commands ... ?

       

      About

       

      jintrah_FTNT
      Staff
      jintrah_FTNTAnswer
      Staff
      June 20, 2022

      Hi,

      Another option may be to manually convert the configs to match that for new device, please see Technical Tip: How to load/convert a FortiGate con... - Fortinet Community

       

      Best regards,

      Jin

      Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement