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DanNSits
Explorer III
January 20, 2023
Solved

FortiGate IPS update outdated

  • January 20, 2023
  • 2 replies
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My newly installed FortiGate shows outdated IPS Definitions, IPS Engine and Malicious URLs.

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The update servers can be reached. Do I miss a service entitlement?

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Status dashboard looks good:

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Any suggestions how to troubleshoot this?

I already tried a reboot and manual license import.

Best answer by abarushka

Hello,

 

I can see that some databases are updated (i.e. botnet) while some are not (i.e. IPS). Normally if database is not used, it won't be updated. I would recommend to create testing firewall policy with IPS and check whether "IPS definition" database will be updated.

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abarushka
Staff
abarushkaAnswer
Staff
January 20, 2023

Hello,

 

I can see that some databases are updated (i.e. botnet) while some are not (i.e. IPS). Normally if database is not used, it won't be updated. I would recommend to create testing firewall policy with IPS and check whether "IPS definition" database will be updated.

DanNSits
DanNSitsAuthor
Explorer III
January 21, 2023

Thanks, that worked.

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