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fortiFWuser
Explorer III
June 3, 2022
Question

Upload Licenses offline

  • June 3, 2022
  • 4 replies
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Hello 

 

I have a new FGT 80F
It does not have internet so it cannot get the lics automatically

 

In the Fortiguard menu I do not see any option to upload the lic file. 

 

Is there a way to accomplish this?

 

Thanks and regards, 

Konstantinos

4 replies

vdralio
Staff
Staff
June 3, 2022
warshad
Staff
Staff
June 4, 2022

Hi FortiFWuser,

 

you must have it on the Internet unless you have a FortiManger setup.

 

sjoshi
Staff
Staff
June 5, 2022

Hi @fortiFWuser,

 

Thank you for posting to the Fortinet Community Forum.

 

You need to have the internet access because your FGT should have connectivity with the FortiGuard server for license update.

For AV,IPS you can directly upload the database by downloading it from support portal.

For registration webfilter,antispam you need to have real time internet access.

Another option is you can use Fortimanager as your Fortiguard server and there should be connectivity between FortiGate and Fortimanager. 

 

Let us know if this helps.

 

Thanks

Thanks, Salon
Contributor III
June 7, 2022

Fortigate license only can be validate this 2 ways:
1. Validate by Fortiguard server - requires internet

2. Validate by Fortimanager - For offline solution

 

For 1st time, i would suggest to go for options 1 so fortigate can download latest signature to make Fortigate works efficiently.

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