Year: 2020

Configuring your FortiGate for NGFW policy-based mode Go to System > Settings and scroll down to System Operation Settings.For Inspection Mode, select Flow-based. For NGFW Mode, select Policy-based. Select an SSL/SSH Inspection profile.

Problems that may be encountered could include: FortiGuard Webfilter is blocking everything FortiGuard Webfilter is blocking nothing Rating errors are displayed on every website 1st Step: Make sure the unit has a Valid Contract and Web Filter subscription FortiGuard Web...

To configure the FortiGate unit for LDAP authentication – Using GUI: 1)   Go to User & Device -> Authentication -> LDAP Servers and select Create New. 2)   Enter a Name for the LDAP server. 3)   In Server Name/IP enter...

FortiGate – NAT Policie NAT policies allow translation of port addresses on your external IP to individual internal addresses, which greatly expands the functionality of a single address. They also allow you to define how the FortiGate routes packets between...

Description In some cases, it is possible to reach the FortiGate unit through a Ping, Telnet or SSH, but not through the web admin GUI.   This article discusses some possible causes for a non-working GUI access. Solution 1) Interface...

Send an ICMP echo request (ping) to test the network connection between the FortiGate unit and another network device. Syntax execute ping PING command. {ip} IP address.

Configuring port 1 VM platform or hypervisor management environments include a guest console window. On the FortiGate-VM, this provides access to the FortiGate console, equivalent to the console port on a hardware FortiGate unit. Before you can access the GUI,...

By default, your FortiGate has an administrator account set up with the username admin and no password. In order to prevent unauthorized access to the FortiGate, it is highly recommended that you add a password to this account. To change the default...