Deploying FortiSOAR Cloud
This section explains how to deploy FortiSOAR Cloud.
To deploy FortiSOAR Cloud:
- In the FortiCloud portal, ensure that you have a product entitlement for FortiSOAR Cloud, and note your account ID number:
After creating a FortiCloud account, wait for 30 minutes before moving to the next step.
- On FortiCare portal, click the FortiSOAR icon in the upper-left corner to access the FortiSOAR Cloud instance.
- On the new page, select the account which includes the FortiSOAR entitlement to open the menu drawer, then click Provision Instance.
The Account ID on the FortiSOAR portal represents the dedicated instance.
FortiSOAR Cloud instance is provisioned in a few minutes.
During provisioning FortiSOAR Cloud performs certain initial configuration steps that are required for FortiSOAR. Initial configuration steps include running the automated non-interactive FortiSOAR configuration wizard, enabling the embedded Secure Message Exchange, triggering the heartbeat between FortiCloud and FortiSOAR etc.FortiSOAR VM provisioning is considered successful only after FortiCloud receives the first heartbeat from FortiSOAR.
- Once provisioned, click Enter to access the FortiSOAR web GUI or select SSH to access the FortiSOAR console to begin using FortiSOAR Cloud. For more information, see the Beginning with FortiSOAR Cloud chapter.
Important: Once the VM is provisioned successfully, you must update the correct hostname value in the "Server_fqhn
" global variable. You can updateServer_fqhn
using by opening the playbook designer and clicking Tools > Global Variables. In the 'Global Variables' list, click the edit icon besideServer_fqhn
and in the Field Value field replace the current hostname value withfortisoar.localhost
. The hostname will be<forticare_accountId>.fortisoar.forticloud.com
.
Only the primary account holder can create secondary account holders in FortiCloud. The secondary account holder can log in to the same instance as a restricted user. The primary account holder can modify the admin profile for the secondary user. For more information see the Adding a secondary account chapter. |