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Administration Guide

Getting started
- Summary of steps
- Using the GUI
- Using the CLI
- Configuration and management
- Product registration with FortiCare
- FortiGate models
Dashboards and Monitors
- Using dashboards
- Using widgets
- Viewing device dashboards in the Security Fabric
- Creating a fabric system and license dashboard
- Dashboards
- Monitors
Network
- Interfaces
- DNS
- Explicit and transparent proxies
- DHCP servers and relays
- Static routing
- Dynamic routing
- Multicast
  - Multicast routing and PIM support
  - Configuring multicast forwarding
- FortiExtender
  - Adding a FortiExtender
- Direct IP support for LTE/4G
- LLDP reception
- Virtual routing and forwarding
- NetFlow
- sFlow
- Link monitor
- IPv6
- FortiGate LAN extension
- SCTP packets with zero checksum on the NP7 platform
- Diagnostics
  - Using the packet capture tool
  - Using the debug flow tool
SD-WAN
- SD-WAN overview
  - SD-WAN components and design principles
  - SD-WAN designs and architectures
- SD-WAN quick start
- SD-WAN members and zones
  - Specify an SD-WAN zone in static routes and SD-WAN rules
- Performance SLA
- SD-WAN rules
- Advanced routing
- VPN overlay
- Advanced configuration
- SD-WAN cloud on-ramp
- SD-WAN Network Monitor service
- Troubleshooting SD-WAN
Zero Trust Network Access
- Zero Trust Network Access introduction
- ZTNA advanced configurations
  - Access control of unmanageable and unknown devices
  - HTTP2 connection coalescing and concurrent multiplexing for ZTNA
- ZTNA configuration examples
- ZTNA troubleshooting and debugging commands
- ZTNA troubleshooting scenarios
Policy and Objects
- Policies
- Address objects
- Protocol options
- Traffic shaping
- Internet Services
Security Profiles
- Inspection modes
- Antivirus
- Web filter
- Video filter
- DNS filter
- Application control
- Intrusion prevention
- File filter
  - Supported file types
- Email filter
- Data leak prevention
- VoIP solutions
- ICAP
- Web application firewall
  - Protecting a server running web applications
- SSL & SSH Inspection
- Custom signatures
- Overrides
- IP ban
- Profile groups
IPsec VPN
- General IPsec VPN configuration
- Site-to-site VPN
  - FortiGate-to-FortiGate
  - FortiGate-to-third-party
- Remote access
- Aggregate and redundant VPN
- Overlay Controller VPN (OCVPN)
- ADVPN
- Fabric Overlay Orchestrator
- Other VPN topics
- VPN IPsec troubleshooting
  - Understanding VPN related logs
  - IPsec related diagnose commands
SSL VPN
- SSL VPN best practices
- SSL VPN security best practices
- SSL VPN quick start
- SSL VPN tunnel mode
- SSL VPN web mode
- SSL VPN authentication
- SSL VPN to IPsec VPN
- SSL VPN protocols
- Configuring OS and host check
- FortiGate as SSL VPN Client
- Dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 support for SSL VPN
- Disable the clipboard in SSL VPN web mode RDP connections
- SSL VPN IP address assignments
- Using SSL VPN interfaces in zones
- SSL VPN troubleshooting
  - Debug commands
  - Troubleshooting common issues
User & Authentication
- User definition, groups, and settings
- LDAP servers
- RADIUS servers
- SAML
- TACACS+ servers
- FortiTokens
- PKI
  - Configuring a PKI user
  - Using the SAN field for LDAP-integrated certificate authentication
- FSSO
- Include usernames in logs
Wireless configuration
Switch Controller
System
- Administrators
  - Local authentication
  - Remote authentication for administrators
  - Administrator account options
  - REST API administrator
  - SSO administrators
  - FortiCloud SSO
  - Allowing the FortiGate to override FortiCloud SSO administrator user permissions
  - Password policy
  - Public key SSH access
  - Restricting SSH and Telnet jump host capabilities
  - Remote administrators with TACACS VSA attributes
- Administrator profiles
- Fabric Management
  - About firmware installations
  - Firmware maturity levels
  - Upgrading individual devices
  - Upgrading Fabric or managed devices
  - Enabling automatic firmware updates
  - Authorizing devices
  - Firmware upgrade notifications
  - Downloading a firmware image
  - Testing a firmware version
  - Installing firmware from system reboot
  - Restoring from a USB drive
  - Using controlled upgrades
  - Downgrading individual device firmware
  - Downloading the EOS support package for supported Fabric devices
- Settings
  - Default administrator password
  - Changing the host name
  - Setting the system time
    - Cryptographic hash function authentication support
    - PTPv2
  - Configuring ports
    - Custom default service port range
  - Setting the idle timeout time
  - Setting the password policy
  - Changing the view settings
  - Setting the administrator password retries and lockout time
  - TLS configuration
  - Controlling return path with auxiliary session
  - Email alerts
  - Using configuration save mode
  - Trusted platform module support
  - Using the default certificate for HTTPS administrative access
- Virtual Domains
  - VDOM overview
  - General configurations
  - Configuring global profiles
  - Backing up and restoring configurations in multi-VDOM mode
  - Inter-VDOM routing configuration example: Internet access
  - Inter-VDOM routing configuration example: Partial-mesh VDOMs
- High Availability
  - FGCP
  - FGSP
  - Standalone configuration synchronization
    - Layer 3 unicast standalone configuration synchronization
  - VRRP
  - Session failover
- SNMP
  - Basic configuration
  - MIB files
  - Access control for SNMP
  - Important SNMP traps
  - SNMP examples
- Replacement messages
- Replacement message groups
- FortiGuard
  - Anycast
  - Configuring FortiGuard updates
  - Using a proxy server to connect to the FortiGuard Distribution Network
  - Manual updates
  - Automatic updates
  - Scheduled updates
  - Sending malware statistics to FortiGuard
  - Update server location
  - Filtering
  - Online security tools
  - Anycast and unicast services
  - Using FortiManager as a local FortiGuard server
  - Cloud service communication statistics
  - IoT detection service
  - FortiAP query to FortiGuard IoT service to determine device details
  - FortiGate Cloud / FDN communication through an explicit proxy
  - FDS-only ISDB package in firmware images
  - Licensing in air-gap environments
  - License expiration
  - Disable all cloud communication
- Feature visibility
- Certificates
  - Automatically provision a certificate
  - Generate a new certificate
  - Regenerate default certificates
  - Import a certificate
  - Generate a CSR
  - CA certificate
  - Remote certificate
  - Certificate revocation list
  - Export a certificate
  - Uploading certificates using an API
  - Procuring and importing a signed SSL certificate
  - Microsoft CA deep packet inspection
  - Administrative access using certificates
  - Creating certificates with XCA
- Security
  - BIOS-level signature and file integrity checking
  - Real-time file system integrity checking
  - Running a file system check automatically
  - Built-in entropy source
  - FortiGate VM unique certificate
  - Enhanced administrator password security NEW
  - Black box for FortiGate New
- Configuration scripts
- Workspace mode
- Custom languages
- RAID
- FortiGate encryption algorithm cipher suites
- Conserve mode
- Using APIs
- Configuration backups and reset
Fortinet Security Fabric
- Components
- Security Fabric connectors
- Using the Security Fabric
- Configuring the Security Fabric with SAML
- Security rating
  - Security Fabric score
- Automation stitches
- Public and private SDN connectors
- Endpoint/Identity connectors
- Threat feeds
- Troubleshooting
  - Viewing a summary of all connected FortiGates in a Security Fabric
  - Diagnosing automation stitches
Log and Report
- Viewing event logs
- System Events log page
- Security Events log page
- Reports page
- Log settings and targets
- Logging to FortiAnalyzer
- Advanced and specialized logging
- Sample logs by log type
- Troubleshooting
WAN optimization
- Overview
- Example topologies
- Configuration examples
VM
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- OCI
- AliCloud
- Private cloud
- VM license
- Permanent trial mode for FortiGate-VM
- PF and VF SR-IOV driver and virtual SPU support
- Using OCI IMDSv2
- FIPS cipher mode for AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP FortiGate-VMs
- Cloud-init
- TPM support for FortiGate-VM
Hyperscale firewall
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting methodologies
- Troubleshooting scenarios
- CLI troubleshooting cheat sheet
- CLI error codes
- Additional resources
Change Log

Home FortiGate / FortiOS 7.2.12 Administration Guide

7.2.12

Change Log

Date	Change Description
2025-09-10	Initial release.
2025-09-25	Updated SAML.
2025-10-16	Updated Web application firewall, Configuring a threat feed, and FortiGuard category threat feed.
2025-12-11	Updated VM license.
2025-12-12	Updated Configuring a RADIUS server.
2025-12-19	Updated VSAs.
2026-01-15	Updated Completing the FortiGate Setup wizard and Enhanced administrator password security NEW.

Change Log

Date	Change Description
2025-09-10	Initial release.
2025-09-25	Updated SAML.
2025-10-16	Updated Web application firewall, Configuring a threat feed, and FortiGuard category threat feed.
2025-12-11	Updated VM license.
2025-12-12	Updated Configuring a RADIUS server.
2025-12-19	Updated VSAs.
2026-01-15	Updated Completing the FortiGate Setup wizard and Enhanced administrator password security NEW.

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