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FortiGate-7000E Handbook

What's New
- What's new for FortiGate-7000 6.0.14
- What's new for FortiGate-7000 6.0.13
- What's new for FortiGate-7000 6.0.12
- What's new for FortiGate-7000 6.0.10
- What's new for FortiGate-7000 6.0.9
- What's new for FortiGate-7000 6.0.8
- What's new for FortiGate-7000 6.0.6
- What's new for FortiGate-7000 6.0.4
FortiGate-7000 overview
- FortiGate-7060E
- FortiGate-7040E
- FortiGate-7030E
- FIM-7901E interface module
- FIM-7904E interface module
- FIM-7910E interface module
- FIM-7920E interface module
- FPM-7620E processing module
- FPM-7630E processing module
Getting started with FortiGate-7000
- Multi VDOM mode
- Confirming startup status
- Configuration synchronization
  - Confirming that the FortiGate-7000 is synchronized
  - Viewing more details about FortiGate-7000 synchronization
- FortiGate-7000 dashboard widgets
- Setting up management connections
  - Adding a password to the admin administrator account
- Using data interfaces for management traffic
- Setting the MTU for a data interface
- More management connections than expected for one device
- More ARP queries than expected for one device - potential issue on large WiFi networks
- Replacing a failed FPM or FIM
- Resolving FIM or FPM boot device I/O errors
  - Formatting an FIM boot device and installing new firmware
  - Formatting an FPM boot device and installing new firmware
- Connecting to module CLIs using the System Management Module
- Failover in a standalone FortiGate-7000
- Changing data interface network settings
- Resetting to factory defaults
- Restarting the FortiGate-7000
- Packet sniffing for FIM and FPM packets
- Diagnose debug flow trace for FPM and FIM activity
- Showing how the DP2 processor will load balance a session
Managing individual FortiGate-7000 FIMs and FPMs
- Special management port numbers
- HA mode special management port numbers
- Managing individual FIMs and FPMs from the CLI
- Connecting to individual FIM and FPM CLIs of the secondary FortiGate-7000 in an HA configuration
Firmware upgrades
- Firmware upgrade basics
- Verifying that a firmware upgrade is successful
- Installing firmware on individual FIMs or FPMs
  - Upgrading the firmware on an individual FIM
  - Upgrading the firmware on an individual FPM
- Installing FIM firmware from the BIOS after a reboot
- Installing FPM firmware from the BIOS after a reboot
- Synchronizing FIMs and FPMs after upgrading the primary FIM firmware from the BIOS
Load balancing and flow rules
- Setting the load balancing method
- Flow rules for sessions that cannot be load balanced
- Determining the primary FPM
- SSL VPN load balancing
- FortiOS Carrier GTP load balancing
  - Optimizing NPU GTP performance
  - Enabling GTP load balancing
- ICMP load balancing
- Load balancing fragmented ICMP packets
- Adding flow rules to support DHCP relay
- Default configuration for traffic that cannot be load balanced
FortiGate-7000 IPsec VPN
- IPsec VPN load balancing
- Troubleshooting
FortiGate-7000 high availability
- New HA features and changes
- Introduction to FortiGate-7000 FGCP HA
- Before you begin configuring HA
- Connect the M1 and M2 interfaces for HA heartbeat communication
  - Default HA heartbeat VLAN triple-tagging
  - HA heartbeat VLAN double-tagging
- Basic FortiGate-7000 HA configuration
- Confirming that the FortiGate-7000 HA cluster is synchronized
  - Viewing more details about HA cluster synchronization
- Setting up HA management connections
- Primary FortiGate-7000 selection with override disabled (default)
- Primary FortiGate-7000 selection with override enabled
- Failover protection
  - Device failure
  - FIM failure
  - Link failure
  - FPM failure
  - Session failover
  - Primary FortiGate-7000 recovery
- HA cluster firmware upgrades
- Distributed clustering
- Modifying heartbeat timing
- Changing how long routes stay in a cluster unit routing table
- Session failover (session-pickup)
- Primary FortiGate-7000 selection
- Primary FortiGate-7000 selection and override
- Link failover (port monitoring or interface monitoring)
- Remote link failover
- FortiGate-7000 FGSP
  - FGSP session synchronization options
  - Example FortiGate-7000 FGSP configuration
- Standalone configuration synchronization
- FortiGate-7000 VRRP HA
FortiLink support
ICAP support
SSL mirroring support
FortiGate-7000 v6.0.14 special features and limitations
FortiGate-7000 v6.0.13 special features and limitations
FortiGate-7000 v6.0.12 special features and limitations
FortiGate-7000 v6.0.10 special features and limitations
FortiGate-7000 v6.0.9 special features and limitations
FortiGate-7000 v6.0.8 special features and limitations
FortiGate-7000 v6.0.6 special features and limitations
FortiGate-7000 v6.0.4 special features and limitations
FortiGate-7000 config CLI commands
FortiGate-7000 execute CLI commands
Change log

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6.0.14

FortiGate-7000 high availability

FortiGate-7000 for FortiOS 6.0 supports the following types of HA operation:

FortiGate Clustering protocol (FGCP)
FortiGate Session Life Support Protocol (FGSP) (FortiGate-7000 FGSP)
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) (FortiGate-7000 VRRP HA)

FortiGate-7000 high availability

FortiGate-7000 for FortiOS 6.0 supports the following types of HA operation:

FortiGate Clustering protocol (FGCP)
FortiGate Session Life Support Protocol (FGSP) (FortiGate-7000 FGSP)
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) (FortiGate-7000 VRRP HA)

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