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- Fortinet Security Fabric
- Manageability
- Networking
- Security
  - SSH MITM deep inspection
Getting started
- Installation
- Using the GUI
- Using the CLI
- FortiExplorer for iOS
- LED specifications
- Inspection mode
- Basic administration
- Firmware
- FortiGuard
- FortiCloud
- Troubleshooting your installation
- Resources
Fortinet Security Fabric
- Overview
  - Benefits
  - Components
- Configuration
- Using the Fortinet Security Fabric
- Automation stitches
- Fabric Connectors
SD-WAN
- Configuring SD-WAN
  - SD-WAN requirements
  - Configuring a basic SD-WAN deployment
- Monitoring SD-WAN
- Applying traffic shaping to SD-WAN traffic
- Viewing SD-WAN information in the Fortinet Security Fabric
High availability
- HA solutions
- FGCP HA
- FGCP HA examples
- Virtual clustering
- Full mesh HA
  - Full mesh HA example
  - Troubleshooting full mesh HA
- Operating a cluster
- Failover protection
- Session failover
- HA and load balancing
- FortiGate-VM and third-party HA
- VRRP
- FGSP
- Standalone configuration sync
Firewall
- Firewall concepts
- IPv6
- Network defense
- Policies
- Addresses
- Virtual IPs
- IP pools
- Services
- Schedules
- WAN optimization, proxies, web caching, and WCCP
- Example topologies
- WAN optimization
- Transparent and explicit proxies
- Explicit web proxy
- Explicit FTP proxy
- Web caching
- WCCP
- WAN optimization diagnose commands
Security Profiles
- Overview
- Inside FortiOS
- Inspection modes
- AntiVirus
- Web filtering
- DNS filter
  - FortiGuard botnet protection
- Application control
- Intrusion prevention
- Anti-spam filter
- Data leak prevention
- ICAP support
- FortiClient Compliance Profiles
- Proxy options
- SSL/SSH inspection
- Other considerations
Authentication
- Introduction to authentication
- Authentication servers
- Users and user groups
- FortiToken Mobile user instructions
- Managing guest access
- Configuring authenticated access
- Captive portals
- Certificate-based authentication
- Single sign-on using a FortiAuthenticator unit
- Single sign-on to Windows AD
- Agent-based FSSO
- SSO using RADIUS accounting records
- Monitoring authenticated users
- Examples and troubleshooting
IPsec VPN
- IPsec VPN concepts
  - VPN tunnels
  - VPN gateways
  - Clients, servers, and peers
  - Encryption
  - Authentication
  - Phase 1 and Phase 2 settings
  - Security Association
  - IKE and IPsec packet processing
- IPsec VPN overview
  - Types of VPNs
  - Planning your VPN
  - General preparation steps
  - How to use this guide to configure an IPsec VPN
- IPsec VPN from the GUI
  - Phase 1 configuration
  - Concentrator
  - IPsec Monitor
- Phase 1 parameters
  - Overview
  - Defining the tunnel ends
  - Choosing Main mode or Aggressive mode
  - Authenticating the FortiGate unit
  - Authenticating remote peers and clients
  - Defining IKE negotiation parameters
  - Using XAuth authentication
  - Dynamic IPsec route control
- Phase 2 parameters
  - Phase 2 settings
  - Configuring Phase 2 parameters
- Defining VPN security policies
  - Defining policy addresses
  - Defining security policies
- Gateway-to-gateway configuration
  - Gateway-to-gateway configuration
  - Testing
- Hub-and-spoke configuration
  - Configuration overview
  - Configure the hub
  - Configure the spokes
  - Dynamic spokes configuration example
- One-Click VPN (OCVPN)
  - General configuration
  - Key exchange
  - Device polling and controller information
  - System states
  - Debugging and logging
- Dynamic DNS configuration
  - Configuration overview
- FortiClient dialup-client configuration
  - Configuration overview
- FortiGate dialup-client configuration
  - Configuration overview
- Supporting IKE Mode Config clients
  - Automatic configuration overview
- Internet-browsing configuration
  - Configuration overview
- Redundant VPN configuration
  - Configuration overview
- Transparent-mode VPN configuration
  - Configuration overview
- IPv6 IPsec VPNs
  - Configuration examples
- L2TP and IPsec (Microsoft VPN)
  - Configuration overview
- GRE over IPsec (Cisco VPN)
  - Configuration overview
- Protecting OSPF with IPsec
  - Configuration overview
- Redundant OSPF routing over IPsec
  - Configuration
- BGP over dynamic IPsec
- IPsec Auto-Discovery VPN (ADVPN)
  - Example ADVPN configuration
- Logging and monitoring
  - Monitoring VPN connections
  - VPN event logs
- Troubleshooting
  - General troubleshooting tips
  - Troubleshooting L2TP and IPsec
  - Troubleshooting GRE over IPsec
SSL VPN
- Overview
- SSL VPN best practices
- Basic configuration
- SSL VPN client
  - FortiClient
  - Tunnel mode client configuration
- SSL VPN web portal
- Setup examples
- Troubleshooting
Networking
- Interfaces
- DNS
- Advanced static routing
- Dynamic routing
- Multicast forwarding
- Modems
- Troubleshooting
Transparent mode
- Overview
  - What is transparent mode?
  - Transparent mode features
- Installation
- Networking in transparent mode
- Firewalls and security in transparent mode
- IPsec VPN in transparent mode
- Using FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer
- High availability in transparent mode
  - Virtual clustering
  - MAC address assignment
- Best practices
VoIP Solutions: SIP
- Inside FortiOS: Voice over IP (VoIP) protection
- Common SIP VoIP configurations
  - Peer to peer configuration
  - SIP proxy server configuration
  - SIP redirect server configuration
  - SIP registrar configuration
  - SIP with a FortiGate
- SIP messages and media protocols
  - Hardware accelerated RTP processing
  - SIP request messages
  - SIP response messages
  - SIP message start line
  - SIP headers
  - The SIP message body and SDP session profiles
  - Example SIP messages
- The SIP session helper
  - SIP session helper configuration overview
  - Viewing, removing, and adding the SIP session helper configuration
  - Changing the port numbers that the SIP session helper listens on
  - Configuration example: SIP session helper in transparent mode
  - SIP session helper diagnose commands
- The SIP ALG
  - Enabling VoIP support from the GUI
  - SIP ALG configuration overview
  - VoIP profiles
  - Changing the port numbers that the SIP ALG listens on
  - Disabling the SIP ALG in a VoIP profile
  - SIP ALG diagnose commands
- Conflicts between the SIP ALG and the session helper
- Stateful SIP tracking, call termination, and session inactivity timeout
  - Adding a media stream timeout for SIP calls
  - Adding an idle dialog setting for SIP calls
  - Changing how long to wait for call setup to complete
- SIP and RTP/RTCP
- How the SIP ALG creates RTP pinholes
- Configuration example: SIP in transparent mode
- RTP enable/disable (RTP bypass)
- Opening and closing SIP register, contact, via and record-route pinholes
- Accepting SIP register responses
- How the SIP ALG performs NAT
  - SIP ALG source address translation
  - SIP ALG destination address translation
  - SIP call re-invite messages
  - How the SIP ALG translates IP addresses in SIP headers
  - How the SIP ALG translates IP addresses in the SIP body
  - SIP NAT scenario: source address translation (source NAT)
  - SIP NAT scenario: destination address translation (destination NAT)
  - SIP NAT configuration example: source address translation (source NAT)
  - SIP NAT configuration example: destination address translation (destination NAT)
  - SIP and RTP source NAT
  - SIP and RTP destination NAT
  - Source NAT with an IP pool
  - Different source and destination NAT for SIP and RTP
  - NAT with IP address conservation
  - Controlling how the SIP ALG NATs SIP contact header line addresses
  - Controlling NAT for addresses in SDP lines
  - Translating SIP session destination ports
  - Translating SIP sessions to multiple destination ports
  - Adding the original IP address and port to the SIP message header after NAT
- Enhancing SIP pinhole security
- Hosted NAT traversal
  - Configuration example: Hosted NAT traversal for calls between SIP Phone A and SIP Phone B
  - Hosted NAT traversal for calls between SIP Phone A and SIP Phone C
  - Restricting the RTP source IP
- SIP over IPv6
- Deep SIP message inspection
  - Actions taken when a malformed message line is found
  - Logging and statistics
  - Deep SIP message inspection best practices
  - Configuring deep SIP message inspection
- Blocking SIP request messages
- SIP rate limiting
  - Limiting the number of SIP dialogs accepted by a security policy
- SIP logging
- Inspecting SIP over SSL/TLS (secure SIP)
  - Adding the SIP server and client certificates
  - Adding SIP over SSL/TLS support to a VoIP profile
- SIP and HA–session failover and geographic redundancy
  - SIP geographic redundancy
  - Supporting geographic redundancy when blocking OPTIONS messages
  - Support for RFC 2543-compliant branch parameters
- SIP and IPS
- SIP debugging
  - SIP debug log format
  - SIP-proxy filter per VDOM
  - SIP-proxy filter command
  - SIP debug setting
  - Display SIP rate-limit data
Best practices
- General considerations
- Customer service and technical support
- Fortinet Knowledge Base
- System and performance
  - Performance
  - Shutting down
- Migration
- Environmental specifications
  - Grounding
  - Rack mounting
- Firmware
- Security Profiles (AV, Web Filtering etc.)
- Networking
- FGCP high availability
  - Heartbeat interfaces
  - Interface monitoring (port monitoring)
- WAN Optimization
- Virtual Domains (VDOMs)
- Explicit proxy
- Wireless
- Logging and reporting
  - Log management
  - System memory and hard disks
Managing devices
- Managing “bring your own device”
- Managing Fortinet devices
Server load balancing
- Inside FortiOS: server load balancing
- Basic load balancing configuration example
- Configuring load balancing
- HTTP and HTTPS load balancing, multiplexing, and persistence
- SSL/TLS load balancing
- IP, TCP, and UDP load balancing
- Example HTTP load balancing to three real web servers
- Example Basic IP load balancing configuration
- Example Adding a server load balance port forwarding virtual IP
- Example Weighted load balancing configuration
- Example HTTP and HTTPS persistence configuration
System administration
- Administrators
- Monitoring
- Replacement messages
- Administration for schools
- PPTP and L2TP
  - Configuring L2TP VPNs
  - L2TP configuration overview
- Session helpers
- Advanced concepts
Traffic shaping
- Overview
- Configuring traffic shaping
- Monitoring traffic shaping
- Traffic shaping examples
- Traffic shaping priority queueing (PRIQ)
- Troubleshooting traffic shaping
Virtual Domains
- VDOMs overview
  - Benefits
  - Configurations
- Configuring VDOMs
- Example configurations
  - Example 1: NAT mode
  - Example 2: NAT and transparent mode
- Troubleshooting VDOMs
FortiWifi and FortiAP Configuration
- Introduction to wireless networking
- Captive portals
- WiFi LAN configuration
- Access point deployment
- Remote AP setup
- Wireless mesh
  - Configuring a meshed WiFi network
  - Configuring a point-to-point bridge
- Hotspot 2.0
- Combining WiFi and wired networks with a software switch
  - FortiAP local bridging (private cloud-managed AP)
  - Using bridged FortiAPs to increase scalability
- Using remote WLAN FortiAPs
- Features for high-density deployments
- Wireless network protection
- Wireless network monitoring
- Wireless network client configuration
- Wireless network examples
  - Basic wireless network example
  - Complex wireless network example
- Managing a FortiAP with FortiCloud
  - FortiCloud-managed FortiAP WiFi
  - FortiCloud-managed FortiAP WiFi without a key
- Using a FortiWiFi unit as a client
  - Using a FortiWiFi unit in the client mode
  - Configuring a FortiAP unit as a WiFi Client in client mode
- Support for location-based services
  - Configuring location tracking
  - Viewing device location data on the FortiGate unit
- Troubleshooting
- Reference
FortiSwitch devices managed by FortiOS
- Connecting FortiLink ports
- Using the FortiGate GUI
- Using the FortiGate CLI
- Network topologies
- Optional setup tasks
- FortiSwitch port features
- FortiSwitch port security policy
- Additional capabilities
- Troubleshooting
FortiOS Carrier
- Overview of FortiOS Carrier features
  - MMS
  - GTP
- MMS Concepts
- MMS Configuration
- GTP basic concepts
- GTP Configuration
- SCTP Concepts
  - SCTP Firewall
- Troubleshooting
Sandbox inspection
- Using FortiSandbox with a FortiGate
  - Connecting a FortiGate to FortiSandbox
  - FortiSandbox console
- Sandbox integration
  - Overview
  - Example configuration
- Sandbox inspection FAQ
FortiView
- Overview
  - Enabling FortiView
  - FortiView interface
- FortiView consoles
- Reference
- Troubleshooting
Logging and reporting
- Logging and reporting overview
- Logging and reporting for small networks
- Logging and reporting for large networks
- Advanced logging
- Troubleshooting and logging
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting methodologies
- Troubleshooting tools
- Troubleshooting tips
- Troubleshooting resources

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Fabric Connectors

Fabric Connectors

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You can use Fabric Connectors for FortiGate devices that don't belong to a Security Fabric.

There are three types of Fabric Connectors, which allow you to connect your network to external services. The three types are: SDN, SSO/identity, and threat feeds.

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