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The Definitive Guide to FortiGate Troubleshooting (CLI)
We have been managing FortiGate firewalls for more than a decade and we gathered our own toolset to properly start troubleshooting and fixing the issues that arise with these firewalls. In this blog...
The Definitive Guide to FortiGate Firewall Management
Companies today face unprecedented challenges, from supply shortages to global economic uncertainties. Butbecause highly sophisticated cyber-criminals can inflict the most catastrophic damage of...
Automatically alert ISPs if Link/Router is down
I wanted to show an easy way to automate alerting ISPs in case your link/connection/router is down. As mentioned in a previous post, with LibreNMS you can easily manage the monitoring of a network....
Fortigate Conserve Mode – How to stop it and what it means
The Fortigate Firewall has more diagnostic tools, but you will mostly be faced with the following problems: 1. Conserve Mode This problem happens when the memory shared mode goes over...
Fortigate CFG_CMDBAPI_ERR Error
This is an older error that Fortigate was giving when it had issues with IPS engine. How to fix the CFG_CMDBAPI_ERR error? To fix the issue you can one of the following 2 things: 1. Upgrade the...
Fortigate Directory Services Authentication
The Fortinet Firewall is capable of integrating with the Microsoft Active directory. It can use the following Methods: I. Fortigate FSAE/FSSO This feature provides a transparent authentication for...
Fortigate VDOMs
Fortigate VDOMs What are Fortigate VDOMs(Virtual Domains)? Well Fortigate VDOMs are like ASAs contexts, you are able to separate the firewall so it looks like you have 2, with different...
Fortigate Tips and Tricks
Fortigate Tips and Tricks This article presents some useful commands/tricks that you can do to your Fortigate. Debug Addresses: Many times it happens that we have a lot of firewall policies...
Fortigate | Fortinet Antivirus
Hello, It this post i will talk about the AntiVirus feature of Fortigate. Since the firewall from Fortinet has a lot of features it is normal that AntiVirus is one of them. [singlepic id=5...
Fortigate Tutorial – Authentication
Fortigate Tutorial 4 - Authentication The Fortigate aplience support different types of authentication. Let's discuss them here: 1. LDAP Fortigate support all servers that are LDAP...
Fortigate Tutorial – Fortiguard
Fortiguard Services [singlepic id=1 w=320 h=240 float=] Fortinet provides a world wide coverage of Fortiguard sevices through the Fortiguard Serice Points. The communication between your...
Fortigate Troubleshooting – DHCP
All of us have problems sometimes with DHCP, especially if we use the Fortigate it as a DHCP relay server. The following commands are used to best troubleshoot the DHCP process: #diag debug...
Fortigate Tutorial – Logging and Alerts
Here is the 2nd Tutorial that i created, hope you enjoy this one too. Logging and Alerts [singlepic id=3 w=320 h=240 float=] Fortigate can store its logs in the following: 1. Local HDD -...
Fortigate Tutorial – Default Protection Profiles
Fortigate Tutorial 3 - Default Protection Profiles So you just started using your Fortigate and got the hang of it. You found out that it has some default Protection Profiles. This...
Fortigate Tutorial – Firewall Default Settings
Fortigate Tutorial 1 - Firewall Default Settings Here are the default settings for almost all of the Fortigate Firewall: Internal: 192.168.1.99 WAN1: 192.168.100.99 WAN2: 192.168.101.99...
Fortigate Troubleshooting – VPN
How to troubleshoot Fortigate VPN? To troubleshoot the Fortigate VPN configuration we will use the following commands: #diag debug enable#diag debug console timestamp en #this command shows the...