Not technical, but (hopefully) helpful list of tips learned the hard way by myself or from others before me. Color code your Terminal/CLI sessions. All terminals have this feature, I use SecureCRT and change background of the saved sessions according to the importance - backbone black, production - gray, lab - light …

Every technical field has its own jargon/abbreviations and it is true for the Fortinet world as well. The picture below lists major products with their code names as used by the community. I also write cheat sheets/scripts/guides to help in daily work, so make sure to check …

Table of Contents Sending test mail from FAZ Enable real-time debug Restart fazmaild mail daemon on FAZ Sending mails via default Frotinet servers Sending test mail from FAZ FAZ has a command to actually send a test mail that checks if sending mails to/via the configured mail server works …

Why did I do such report? Some of our clients are using VM Fortianalyzer (FAZ) which comes with the volume licensing of received logs, and so alerts frequently on logs intake exceeding this license. Other than buying additional license, I can drill down with the FAZ help on top policies …

Table of Contents Introduction Step by step instructions for CLI Instructions for GUI Introduction I want to talk today about the safety switch the Fortigate has for us when changing its configuration and something goes wrong. Most reputable vendors have such rollback-if-sh*t-happens - Juniper has commit confirmed , Cisco routers …

Table of Contents fnsysctl ifconfig fnsysctl ls fnsysctl cat fnsysctl date fnsysctl df fnsysctl du fnsysctl pwd fnsysctl ps fnsysctl kill fnsysctl killall fnsysctl mv fnsysctl printenv fnsysctl grep Important facts about fnsysctl command: You have to log in with a user having super_admin profile. For VM Fortigate, it has …

Table of Contents Some Facts Why Some Facts Free-style filtering is per category, so any filter you configure is for a specific category of logs only, e.g. Events, UTM. You can filter on ANY field in the raw log Value for the filter allows wildcard * which matches anything. Behavior …

When trying to switch a Fortigate from NAT mode to the Transparent one, we get an error about Fortilink interface being used. The official docs just say to delete Fortilink from all used settings, but not how. This article shows where and how. The error: config sys settings set opmode …

Blogs and other resources to read on Fortinet products - Fortigate, Fortianalyzers, Fortimanager and such Here are some Fortinet-related technical blogs I read. If you have additional blogs/sites to recommend - send me to add. https://www.ultraviolet.network/blog Matt Sherif’s blog. Matt is a System Engineer at Fortinet …

Can we send logs from non-Fortinet devices to the Fortianalyzer? This question pops up from time to time and the short answer is yes, for sure - any device that can send its logs in syslog format (read any device of Enterprise level today), can also send the logs to Fortianalyzer …