Vulnerability scanning feature cancelled

[lukral]

Hello,

I hesitate with upgrade to 5.2.7 because of removing "vulnerability scanning" feature from FG. Can anyone tell me, why it was removed? And how to adequately substitute this feature. Thanks a lot

[AlexFeren]

I hesitate with upgrade to 5.2.7 because of removing "vulnerability scanning" feature from FG.

I'm running 60D v5.2.7 - Vulnerability Scanning is very alive and working. I've read that it was removed from some models, eg. 80C, but not all. Would be interested to know source of your information.

[romanr]

Hi,

Vulnerability scanning is there for all models starting with 60C with FortiOS 5.2.x

http://docs.fortinet.com/...TRIX-524-201508-R6.pdf

Maybe you have only deactivated it via the "Features" settings....

With 5.4 the vulnerability scanning is CLI only ... So I guess the feature will be dropped in the long term!

Br,

Roman

[AlexFeren]

"FortiOS - Release Notes VERSION 5.2.7" - "The following features have been removed from the FortiGate and FortiWiFi 80C, 80CM, and 81CM: : • Vulnerability scanning : " http://docs.fortinet.com/....2.7-release-notes.pdf

[Kenundrum]

in 5.4 it's still in the cli? The documents i was reading seemed to indicate that it was gone altogether and they were relying on the forticlient software to do vulnerability scanning. That is better than having it completely gone i guess.

[absmith]

Is there a way to get the reports off of it still?  I would like to upgrade to 5.4 but many of our servers are linux and forticlient is only supported for VPN on linux.

[jokes54321]

It is frustrating to see features that drove our purchasing decision disappear. When we built our new datacenter we were looking at a Cisco only solution. Our CTO ended up pushing us towards the Fortigate since the one appliance checked off a number of our requirements. 1 year into the Fortigate (a pair of 1500d units), one of the key features was removed in 5.4.1 and moved to a different product (EMS). Sad part is, EMS didn't fully restore the lost functionality either.

[MikePruett]

I haven't noticed the disappearance on any of my devices.