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AtiT
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July 14, 2017
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FortiClient 5.6 Configuration Tool + Rebranding Tool

  • July 14, 2017
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Hello,

I have some questions about the Configuration and Rebranding Tool.

According to the FortiClient docummentation the Configuration tool is free and can be downloaded from the FNDN site.

Does it mean that I can create an MSI installer and provide it to hundreds of our customers for deploying via Active directory for free?

Does it matter that the configuration tool was downloaded under my account and I can user it for unlimited customers to create custom installer?

 

The Rebranding tool should be available to download with FNDN site license. What does it mean? Where to obtain this license and where to put/upload the license on the FNDN site?

    Best answer by Sebastiaan_Koopmans

    Hi AtiT,

     

    Yes you can download it for free from FNDN site. from 5.4.4 No license is required to use the configuration tool

    In the config tool you can define / select initial config file and features 

    So you can create different installers for different installations

    No license is required to use the configuration tool

     

    licensing will the client get from EMS or your fortigate.

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    Sebastiaan_Koopmans
    Sebastiaan_KoopmansAnswer
    New Member
    July 14, 2017

    Hi AtiT,

     

    Yes you can download it for free from FNDN site. from 5.4.4 No license is required to use the configuration tool

    In the config tool you can define / select initial config file and features 

    So you can create different installers for different installations

    No license is required to use the configuration tool

     

    licensing will the client get from EMS or your fortigate.

    ergotherego
    ergotherego
    New Member
    July 14, 2017

    If you have 100's of users and they are internal users, or at least managed domain customers, I would strongly recommend EMS (FortiClientEMS). Especially if you want to do end-point control / compliance.

     

    About a year ago we put 100+ users on FortiClient w/o EMS. And now we are pushing a bunch of VPN changes to all those users and rolling out EMS to help facilitate. If we had started with EMS from day one, it would've made my life much easier.

     

    If you need to push different profiles/settings to different users, you do need their machine accounts organized properly into different OUs. EMS can only separate user types based on machine account and OU membership.

    ergotherego
    ergotherego
    New Member
    July 14, 2017

    Also about FortiClientConfigurator tool ...

    [ul]
  • The FNDN site only had it for 5.6 last time I looked
  • FCT 5.4.4 is not out yet that I can see
  • If you have active support for anything, you can download the proper Configurator version for your FCT under the downloads for FortiClient itself. For instance, you can find the version for 5.4.3 in file FortiClientTools_5.4.3.0870.zip
  • I was able to use my EMS license with Configurator[/ul]
    • AtiT
    AtiTAuthor
    New Member
    July 17, 2017

    Hello,

    I am aware of the EMS, we will not use it in the most cases that has several reasons - price, not working as we expected etc.

     

    In most cases smaller customer want only SSL-VPN configuration. The easies way for us to create the custom installer with VPN-Only settings and import the configuration file. The customer can than deploy the MSI via GPO.

    In case if something is changing in the VPN config (not happens in 99% of cases) it can be done with GPO also.

     

    So there will be no FortiGate or EMS with licenses. My question is whether it is OK?

     

    The Rebranding tool - I still not now how to get it. What license I need and how/where to upload into FNDN site?

    afilice
    afilice
    New Member
    January 31, 2018

    This sounds like some developer B.S. I am also having an issue with obtaining the configuration tool. Why is this not in our downloads like previous versions? Why are we not getting answers? I took a backup of my VPN and hope I can restore it on a different machine but honestly why are they protecting a tool the community is requesting that was available before? I am left with a bad taste on this issue.

    aaron833
    aaron833
    New Member
    January 31, 2018

    Like everyone else I don't understand Fortinet's deal with the rebranding tool.  Originally in 5.4.4 and earlier versions it was part of the configuration tool.  For 5.6 they removed it and you can only get it by jumping through these ridiculous hoops:

    [ul]
  • Sign up to FNDN which requires 2 Fortnet employees to sponsor you - why???
  • Once you finally have FNDN access you still need to buy a license - wtf, seriously???[/ul]

    It took me forever to finally get 2 Fortinet employees to sponsor me, only for me to realize I still needed a license.  If they want us to pay for the rebranding tool then just put it in with all the other downloads instead of trying to hide it in FNDN.  Finally, if you use EMS to push out FortiClient upgrades you can't use the custom re-branded version you created   

     

    This whole thing makes me just want to dump FortiClient all together.  It's not even that great of an A/V tool and I've already had to remove it from some PCs because it was conflicting with some software causing it to crash.  EMS feels like it should still be in beta - It's okay for small deployments, but definitely not in an enterprise environment.  There is no way to push upgrades to specific computers, you just assign a deployment to a profile and hope it works - which I'm finding out it rarely does.

     

    Anybody considering FortiClient or FortiClient with EMS, I'd suggest looking at a different A/V solution.  I love my FortiGates, but this A/V client is junk!

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