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jmleon12
New Member
August 25, 2022
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Secure SD-WAN Fortigate No Control Survivability

  • August 25, 2022
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How long can Fortigate survive with loss of Fortimanager connectivity?

3 replies

akristof
Staff
Staff
August 25, 2022

Hi,

If you are using FortiManager for configuration then FortiGate will have no problem to work as usual. If you use FortiManager also for updates and rating, then FortiGate will have problems to update its databases and rates websites so users might have problems to access internet (you might avoid this).

jmleon12
jmleon12Author
New Member
August 25, 2022

Thank you Adrian.  So in theory, the FortiGates can run indefinitely without connection to the FortiManager or FortiAnalyzer?

sw2090
SuperUser
SuperUser
August 25, 2022

Basically they can..just - as Adrian wrote - if you also use the FMG as Server for proxying FortiGuard Updates and databases some UTM services would stop working or nio longer wor corectly without the FMG.