Fortigate SDWAN Box - Fortimanager Sync

[rajamanickam]

Hi,

  I have a query.. I have few fortigate devices which are being configured directly until now. We have lot of static routes, firewall policy, SDWAN rules, interfaces etc.. 

Currently I want to manage these fortigate devices through Fortimanager. How can I add a preloaded config Fortigate device into Fortimanager so that Fortimanager gets policies, configs from Fortigate and continue to save it for future changes?. Any documents available on this?.

Regards

Raja

[Anthony_E]

Hello Raja,

Thank you for using the Community Forum. I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible.

Thanks,

[Anthony_E]

Hello Raja,

I have found this article:

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiManager/Troubleshooting-Note-Cannot-add-device-after-restorin...

Which can be useful for your question.

Could you please have a look and tell me if it helped you?

If not, We will find another solution to reply to your question.

Regards,

[Debbie_FTNT · Accepted solution]

Hey Raja,

in principle, adding a device to FortiManager works as follows:

- you add the device in Device Manager with IP and provide admin credentials

- FortiManager will discover and add the device

- you are then prompted to import the configuration and policies

-> this creates a policy package that mirrors the current FortiGate configuration

-> you can then make policy changes on FortiManager and push them out to FortiGate

-> the first push in this way will delete a lot of unused objects from FortiGate; this is expected behavior

If you make changes on FortiGate, these are automatically synced to FortiManager device database (config backup) but NOT policy package; you would have to import policies manually to reflect those changes.

If you only want to use FortiManager as a location for backups, you can operate it in backup-mode: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortimanager/6.0.3/administration-guide/23431/adom-modes

If you are looking for a more thorough guide to FortiManager in general, you can check FortiManager documenation: https://docs.fortinet.com/product/fortimanager/7.0

There are several unaffiliated series on YouTube covering it as well (look for NSE 5/FortiManager or similar), some of which are of decent quality.

[rajamanickam]

Thanks a lot for your reply.. It helps...

Regards

Raja