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Administration Guide

Setting up FortiManager
- Connecting to the GUI
  - FortiManager Setup wizard
  - Activating VM licenses
- Security considerations
- GUI overview
- FortiAnalyzer Features
  - Enable or disable FortiAnalyzer features
- Initial setup
- Restarting and shutting down
FortiManager Key Concepts
- Communication through protocols
- Configuration through Device Manager
- ADOMs and devices
- Operations
- Key features of the FortiManager system
Dashboard
- Customizing the dashboard
- System Information widget
- System Resources widget
- License Information widget
- Unit Operation widget
- Alert Messages Console widget
- Log Receive Monitor widget
- Insert Rate vs Receive Rate widget
- Log Insert Lag Time widget
- Receive Rate vs Forwarding Rate widget
- Disk I/O widget
- Device widgets
- Restart, shut down, or reset FortiManager
Device Manager
- ADOMs
- Device & Groups
- Scripts
- Provisioning Templates
- Firmware templates
- Monitors
- FortiGate chassis devices
  - Viewing chassis dashboard
Policy & Objects
- About policies
  - Policy theory
  - Global policy packages
- Policy workflow
  - Provisioning new devices
  - Day-to-day management of devices
- Feature visibility
- Managing policy packages
- Managing policies
- Using policy blocks
- Managing objects and dynamic objects
- ADOM revisions
- Applying tags to address objects and policies
SD-WAN Manager
- SD-WAN Network
  - SD-WAN Devices
  - SD-WAN Monitor
- SD-WAN Templates
- SD-WAN overlay orchestration
- SD-WAN rules
- Upgrading FortiManager with SD-WAN devices and templates
AP Manager
- Managed FortiAPs
- WiFi Maps
  - Google map
  - Floor map
- WiFi profiles and settings for central management
- WiFi profiles and settings for per-device management
  - Enabling FortiAP per-device management
  - Creating profiles
VPN Manager
- Overview
- Enabling central VPN management
- DDNS support
- VPN Setup Wizard supports device groups
- IPsec VPN
- Agentless VPN
- VPN security policies
  - Defining policy addresses
  - Defining security policies
- VPN CLI configurations
FortiView
Fabric View
- Security Fabric Topology
- Security Rating
  - Viewing Security Fabric Ratings
  - Security Fabric score
- Fabric Connectors
  - Core Network Security
    - Creating FortiClient EMS connectors
  - Other Fortinet Products
    - Creating a FortiAIOps connector
    - Creating a FortiTelemetry agent connector
- External Connectors
- Cloud Orchestration
FortiAI
- Enabling administrator access to FortiAI
- Using FortiAI
- FortiAI data privacy
- FortiAI tokens
- FortiAI example tasks
- Submitting feedback for FortiAI
- Configuring role-based access control for FortiAI
FortiGuard
- Device licenses
  - View licensing status
- Package management
- Query services
- Firmware images
- External resources
- Settings
- Using FortiManager as a local FDS
- Configuring FortiGuard services
- Logging events related to FortiGuard services
  - Logging FortiGuard antivirus and IPS updates
  - Logging FortiGuard web or email filter events
- Restoring the URL or antispam database
FortiSwitch Manager
- Managed FortiSwitches
- FortiSwitch central management
  - Enabling FortiSwitch central management
  - FortiSwitch Templates
- FortiSwitch per-device management
Extender Manager
- Managed extenders
  - Managing FortiExtender devices
- Extender profiles
  - FortiExtender profiles
  - Using Fortinet recommended extender profiles
- Data plans
- FortiExtender SSIDs
- Preview the JSON API or CLI script for Extender Manager configurations
System Settings
- Logging Topology
- Network
- RAID Management
- Administrative Domains (ADOMs)
- Fabric Management
- Certificates
- Event Log
  - Event log filtering
- Task Monitor
- Mail Server
- Syslog Server
  - Send local logs to syslog server
- Meta Fields
- Device logs
  - Configuring rolling and uploading of logs using the GUI
  - Configuring rolling and uploading of logs using the CLI
- Miscellaneous Settings
Administrators
- Trusted hosts
- Monitoring administrators
- Disconnecting administrators
- Managing administrator accounts
- Restricted administrators
- Administrator profiles
- Workspace settings
- Authentication
- Global administration settings
- Multi-factor authentication
  - Multi-factor authentication with FortiAuthenticator
    - Configuring FortiAuthenticator
    - Configuring FortiManager
  - Multi-factor authentication with FortiToken Cloud
High Availability
- Synchronizing the FortiManager configuration and HA heartbeat
- If the primary or a backup unit fails
- FortiManager HA cluster startup steps
- Configuring HA options
- Monitoring HA status
- Upgrading the FortiManager firmware for an operating cluster
Appendix A - Supported RFC Notes
Appendix B - Policy ID support
Appendix C - FortiManager Ansible Collection documentation
Appendix D - FortiAI token entitlements for FortiManager
Appendix E - VM license migration
Change Log

Home FortiManager 8.0.0 Administration Guide

8.0.0

Install wizard

To use the Install Wizard to install policy packages and device settings to one or more FortiGate devices, see Installing policy packages and device settings.
To use the Install Wizard to install device settings only, see Install device settings only.
To reinstall a policy package without using the Install Wizard, see Reinstall a policy package.

If auto-push is enabled, policy packages and device settings will be installed to offline devices when they come back online. See Creating ADOMs for information on enabling this feature.

FortiManager 7.4.1 and later supports partial installs using the JSON API.

Install wizard

To use the Install Wizard to install policy packages and device settings to one or more FortiGate devices, see Installing policy packages and device settings.
To use the Install Wizard to install device settings only, see Install device settings only.
To reinstall a policy package without using the Install Wizard, see Reinstall a policy package.

If auto-push is enabled, policy packages and device settings will be installed to offline devices when they come back online. See Creating ADOMs for information on enabling this feature.

FortiManager 7.4.1 and later supports partial installs using the JSON API.

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