Overview

This document applies to FortiNAC appliances managed by the FortiNAC Manager. Provides the steps for a customer to migrate their existing FortiNAC virtual appliances with the CentOS operating system to new FortiNAC virtual appliances with the FortiNAC-OS operating system. It assumes the customer is using perpetual endpoint licenses.

Once migration is complete, the FortiNAC-OS appliance will have the license, entitlements and configuration as the CentOS appliance.

Requirements

• FortiNAC Manager must be using perpetual endpoint licenses (Support Type = License Support). To confirm, login to the Customer Portal (https://support.fortinet.com) and review the Entitlements section for the Manager.

  

• Registration codes for the FortiNAC-OS appliances (FNC-CAX-xx/FNC-MX-xx)

• Existing FortiNAC CentOS appliances (FNC-CA-xx/FNC-M-xx) should be running one of the following versions*

  • FortiNAC Software Versions

    • v9.1.10 or greater

    • v9.2.8 or greater

    • v9.4.3 or greater

    • v7.2.2 or greater

      *Important: If not all PODs will be migrated in the same session, upgrade to the same version as the FortiNAC-OS appliances.

• New FortiNAC-OS appliances should be running FortiNAC Software Version F7.2.2 or greater for the migration tools

• Temporary management IP address

• CLI access to both the CentOS and FortiNAC-OS appliances

Considerations

The process outlined and the tools used for this migration is not supported for the following configurations:

• FortiNAC Manager is using subscription endpoint licenses (Support Type = FortiNAC VM)

  

• FortiNAC Control (FNC-C-xx) and Application (FNC-A-xx) Appliance Pairs

• FortiNAC-OS system to another FortiNAC-OS system

Migration Steps

Below are the steps required to complete the migration.

Step 1: Product Registration*

Step 2: Transfer Endpoint License Entitlements *

Step 3: Appliance Installation

Step 4: Generate and Download Keys

Step 5: Appliance Configuration

Step 6: Download & Install New License Key

--- PERFORM REMAINING STEPS DURING MAINTENANCE WINDOW* ---

Step 7: Migrate Managed Servers - Collect & Transfer CentOS Migration Data

Step 8: Migrate Managed Servers - Cutover to New Appliance

Step 9: Migrate FortiNAC Manager - Collect & Transfer CentOS Migration Data

Step 10: Migrate FortiNAC Manager - Cutover to New Appliance

Step 11: Update Allowed Serial Number List (if necessary)

*See Preparation Checklist for suggested timelines to complete step.