Building a project foundation in FortiManager

In this chapter, we are going to prepare all the Provisioning Templates, Policy Packages, Groups and other common elements necessary to deploy the Secure SD-WAN Solution. These elements must be configured once per project. They will be used by all the deployed sites.

Thanks to their generic nature, they will also be largely reused between different projects, as we have already explained in the previous chapter, with an example of Jinja CLI Templates.

Although this document describes how to perform all the actions interactively (using FortiManager GUI), remember that all the actions can be fully automated with REST API calls, as we have briefly discussed in Deployment overview.

The project foundation will consist of the following elements:

• Device groups
• System templates
• Certificate templates
• Jinja CLI templates
• SD-WAN templates
• Static route templates
• Firewall policies