Confusion over firmware upgrade path for fortigate 3240c

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September 23, 2016
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We are in the process of upgrading one of our fortigate, but we are not sure which is the best method. Having looked at the online link http://cookbook.fortinet.com/sysadmins-notebook/supported-upgrade-paths-fortios/5/ We are unable to determine the exact path we need to take.

Our current Firmware is : v5.0,build3608 (GA Patch 7)

Looking under the upgrade option on the firewall, we are presented with

V5.4 GA Patch 1 (Build1064)

V5.2 GA Patch 9 (Build0736)

V5.2 GA patch 8 (Build0727)

V5.0 GA patch 13 (Build0322)

V5.0 GA patch 12 (Build0318)

Which option or which upgrade path shall i choose, it looks a bit confusion

Any help will be appreciated

SCSIraidGURU

New Member

Your on 5.0 GA7. I would be very careful upgrading to 5.4. Backup each time. I tried jumping multiple releases and caused issues. You will want to read each release note about gotchas. I would get the 5.0 GA release that is closest to GA 7 and upgrade in baby steps. Even Fortinet techs have told me on my 800C, not to jump more than a few releases at a time. Can you get closer than GA12? I would make sure you have good backups of the device each time.

neonbit

New Member

The supported upgrade path from 5.0.7 to the latest (5.4.3) would be:

5.0.9 > 5.0.11 > 5.0.14 > 5.2.10 > 5.4.3

emnoc

New Member

I'm with neon bit on this, the rls clearly tell you the upgrade patch and where you can jump from. Backup the cfg file, push a fortiguard update when your all done and monitor logs, firewall policy counts,etc.....

btw: I would not put a 3240C in a prod-env on 5.4.3. We have FGt3240C still on 5.2.9 and soon to be 5.2.10

Ken

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