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Kenundrum
Kenundrum
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April 24, 2018
Question

Fortimanager 6?

  • April 24, 2018
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Has anyone tried FortiManager 6 yet?

I recently bought a Fortimanager and loaded 5.6.3. Is it the same rule of thumb for manager firmware as fortigate- wait for a few patch releases? I was reading the release notes for 6 and it seems that it still supports the 5.4.x 5.6.x fortigates no problem and apparently one of the bugs fixed is one i'm experiencing.

Thoughts?

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    ergotherego
    ergotherego
    New Member
    April 24, 2018

    I've been burned by too many early releases of FMG that I won't be upgrading until at least 6.0.3. Too many firewalls, and too many operators that it's not worth the risk for us. Although I am excited about it.

     

    5.4 wasn't stable for us until 5.4.4.

    5.6 is looking pretty good at 5.6.3 so hopefully that is indicative of a trend.

    baker_gt
    baker_gt
    New Member
    May 3, 2018

    We have been using it 3 min after i received the RSS feed notification.

     

    5.6.3 has soooo many bugs we were unable to use it. We have only found 1x in V6, but they have fixed all my past issues.

     

    Its still a mole of a thing to try and use, but its much better than V5.

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