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Deploying FortiClient Cloud

This topic explains how to deploy FortiClient Cloud. This topic assumes that you already purchased the desired subscription licenses for your deployment from a Fortinet partner or reseller and received your license activation codes.

Note

You can create only one FortiClient Cloud instance per FortiCloud account.

To deploy FortiClient Cloud:
  1. Register the FortiClient Cloud subscription contract to your FortiCloud account:
    1. On the Customer Service & Support site, go to Asset Management > Register Now.
    2. In the Registration Code field, enter your license activation code and select Next to continue registering the product.
    3. Enter your details in the other fields and complete the registration. This is a yearly subscription.
    Note

    You may need to wait a few minutes for the cloud instance to initialize before you can proceed to step 2 or 3.

  2. Register the FortiClient endpoint licenses for management by FortiClient Cloud:
    1. On the Customer Service & Support site, go to Asset Management > Register Now.
    2. In the Registration Code field, enter your license activation code and select Next to continue registering the product.
    3. Select the Used for Cloud Purpose checkbox.
    4. Enter your details in the other fields and complete the registration.
  3. Access FortiClient Cloud in one of the following ways:
    • Access FortiClient Cloud from FortiCloud.
    • Access FortiClient Cloud from the FortiClient Cloud portal:
      1. In a browser, go to the FortiClient Cloud portal.
      2. Log in with your FortiCloud credentials.
    • Access FortiClient Cloud from the link in the welcome email.
    • Note

      If you cannot access the FortiClient Cloud portal, ensure that you enable access to forticlient.forticloud.com:443. Refer to the list of required services and ports for FortiClient.

  4. When you first log in to FortiClient Cloud, you can select the region to store your FortiClient Cloud data. Select North America, EMEA, or APAC.
  5. Select the desired account from the organizational unit (OU) tree to access FortiClient Cloud.

If you are logged in as an IAM user with OUs enabled, you can return to the OU tree by selecting the dropdown list in the upper right corner of the GUI, which displays the OU account that you are currently logged in, then selecting the desired OU account from the dropdown list. If you are not logged in as an IAM user, you can select your account in the upper right corner of the GUI and then select Switch Accounts to switch to other accounts that you belong to as a subuser.

For information about multitenancy with FortiCloud Organizations and Identity & Access Management, see Organization Portal.

Deploying FortiClient Cloud

This topic explains how to deploy FortiClient Cloud. This topic assumes that you already purchased the desired subscription licenses for your deployment from a Fortinet partner or reseller and received your license activation codes.

Note

You can create only one FortiClient Cloud instance per FortiCloud account.

To deploy FortiClient Cloud:
  1. Register the FortiClient Cloud subscription contract to your FortiCloud account:
    1. On the Customer Service & Support site, go to Asset Management > Register Now.
    2. In the Registration Code field, enter your license activation code and select Next to continue registering the product.
    3. Enter your details in the other fields and complete the registration. This is a yearly subscription.
    Note

    You may need to wait a few minutes for the cloud instance to initialize before you can proceed to step 2 or 3.

  2. Register the FortiClient endpoint licenses for management by FortiClient Cloud:
    1. On the Customer Service & Support site, go to Asset Management > Register Now.
    2. In the Registration Code field, enter your license activation code and select Next to continue registering the product.
    3. Select the Used for Cloud Purpose checkbox.
    4. Enter your details in the other fields and complete the registration.
  3. Access FortiClient Cloud in one of the following ways:
    • Access FortiClient Cloud from FortiCloud.
    • Access FortiClient Cloud from the FortiClient Cloud portal:
      1. In a browser, go to the FortiClient Cloud portal.
      2. Log in with your FortiCloud credentials.
    • Access FortiClient Cloud from the link in the welcome email.
    • Note

      If you cannot access the FortiClient Cloud portal, ensure that you enable access to forticlient.forticloud.com:443. Refer to the list of required services and ports for FortiClient.

  4. When you first log in to FortiClient Cloud, you can select the region to store your FortiClient Cloud data. Select North America, EMEA, or APAC.
  5. Select the desired account from the organizational unit (OU) tree to access FortiClient Cloud.

If you are logged in as an IAM user with OUs enabled, you can return to the OU tree by selecting the dropdown list in the upper right corner of the GUI, which displays the OU account that you are currently logged in, then selecting the desired OU account from the dropdown list. If you are not logged in as an IAM user, you can select your account in the upper right corner of the GUI and then select Switch Accounts to switch to other accounts that you belong to as a subuser.

For information about multitenancy with FortiCloud Organizations and Identity & Access Management, see Organization Portal.