What’s new in FortiDevice 26.1.a

Release 26.1.a provides the following new features:

• You can now use a FortiGate device as a one-arm sniffer to collect traffic from FortiSwitch mirrored ports with the FortiOS API and report the data in the FortiDevice dashboard.

  To use this feature:

  1. Manage one or more FortiSwitch units with a FortiGate device.

  2. Add a FortiGate fabric connector in FortiDevice.

  3. Add a task.

• You can now examine your inventory with an Operational Technology (OT) view. The OT view shows a list of OT devices or the OT devices grouped by Purdue Model levels. Clicking on the MAC address or host name of an OT device gives the device details, such as hardware family, type, vendor, and version. You can change the owner of the device and add tags to devices, as well as filter the devices by site or by Purdue Model level.

• “Scans” are now referred to as “tasks” throughout the GUI.

• When a new user logs in to FortiDevice, a window now displays, asking if the user would like a trial license. Previously, a trial contract was activated automatically for a new user.

• There are new pagination options at the bottom of the Inventory > Devices, Inventory > Vulnerabilities, Inventory > Software, Inventory > Services, Events > Events, and Events > Log Servers pages that allow you to change how many items are displayed per page. You can now select 10, 20, 50, 100, and 500 items. Previously, you could only select 100 items.

• When you create a standard task, a new checkbox, Skip Unresponsive Hosts, can decrease the amount of time for executing a task. When the vulnerability scan level is set to Partial or Full, the new checkbox is automatically selected, but you can clear the checkbox if you prefer.