How to configure Fortiswitch ports in Fortimanager?

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 23, 2021
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There are two ways to modify ports of your Fortiswitch using Fortimanager.

Option 1 Using device layer configuration. You need to go to CLI Configurations and then select the switch. Once you have done this changes then you can proceed to see install preview on Install Device Settings (only)

Option 2 Fortiswitch Module. If you are using Fortiswitch Template, modify the configuration using the template you already have. Once you have done this changes then you can proceed to see install preview on Install Device Settings (only)

Please consider that Templates have more priority than Device Layer configuration. If you use Template you must updates changes in Template otherwise you don't need to create a template to update your ports. You can do it directly on device layer configuration.

simonorch

Explorer

What is the best way of deploying a standardized switch model and L2 port/vlan configuration, but location specific L3 switch port configuration? Switch module templates could work, but DPP as a mode is not supported and i'm unsure if L3 vlan information would get pushed or only the switch port configuration.

Currently the only way i can see is through a regular cli script, but the issue there is how to do it without having to edit the switch serial number for every switch (up to 1400 in our case)

axel_gonzalez_FTNTAuthor

Staff

If DPP mode is available on Fortigate/Fortiswith but not on Fortimanager Switch Manager template we can include it on future firmware versions.

Could you share where do you configure DPP on a normal Fortiswitch or Fortigate?

simonorch

Explorer

Thanks for the response. Here's an example from my lab.

config switch-controller dynamic-port-policy
edit "wifi"
set fortilink "fortilink"
config policy
edit "Aruba-AP"
set hw-vendor "Aruba"
set vlan-policy "wifi"
next
end

and on the switchport

edit "port4"
set access-mode dynamic
set port-policy "wifi"

axel_gonzalez_FTNTAuthor

Staff

Thanks for sharing this help me to find a BUG already reported 0772396 "FMG missing fortiswitch dynamic policy GUI support."

I would recommend you can open a ticket support so that we can add your ticket to the reported BUG. There is no fix confirmed but opening the ticket will help to register cases with the problem. Regards!

simonorch

Explorer

Again, thanks for the response. Useful to know that it's a bug rather than a missing feature. I'll go ahead and open a ticket as suggested.

Whilst we can work around pushing FSW port configurations via cli script, it would be much more user friendly to be able to do it via a FSW template

Just FYI, we asked for the hardware vendor device pattern to be added to DPP policies so we could add vlan policies to them, i think it took 2 weeks and we had an interim build for testing and now it's included in 7.0.4 GA. Really great response from Fortinet, the end customer was very impressed.

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