Introduction
FortiLAN Cloud is a unified management platform for standalone FortiAP and FortiSwitch deployments. FortiLAN Cloud provides configuration management and monitoring control for a handful of devices and can scale up to thousands of devices across multiple sites.
The following image shows the FortiLAN Cloud overview including the network management system (NMS) and administration communications.
FortiAP
FortiLAN Cloud centralizes the life-cycle management of your standalone FortiAP deployment with a simple, intuitive, and easy-to-use cloud interface that is accessible from anywhere at any time. With FortiLAN Cloud, you can deploy, configure, and manage your FortiAP devices. FortiLAN Cloud also offers enhanced visibility, monitoring, reporting, and analytics features for your FortiAP devices. FortiLAN Cloud also supports the FortiAP-S and FortiAP-U series which combine the elements of universal threat protection (UTP) protection at the network edge.
If you are interested in cloud management of FortiAP devices that are already connected to FortiGate devices, then use FortiGate Cloud, not FortiLAN Cloud.
FortiSwitch
FortiLAN Cloud provides management as a service (MaaS) for secure switching infrastructure deployed with FortiSwitch devices. It provides a centralized discovery, visibility, and configuration management solution without the need of on-premise hardware, software, or management overhead. FortiLAN Cloud manages FortiSwitch devices in standalone mode.
REST API
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is a modern, scalable (but not high performance) client-server based RPC technique using existing HTTP protocol methods (such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) on server resources (identified by URLs) and transferring the resources in either XML / JSON / HTML representation. FortiLAN Cloud REST API provides functions similar to its GUI functions, both configuration and monitoring are supported over REST API. The FortiLAN Cloud REST APIs are integrated with FortiCloud IAM users, you can use REST APIs as a local user or an IAM user.
FortiLAN Cloud SKUs
For license ordering details such as stock keeping unit (SKU) codes, see the FortiLAN Cloud Data Sheet.
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FortiAP-S and F-Series or later FortiAP-U family access points communicate with FortiCare/FortiGuard service to get UTP updates (for AV, IPS engine and database) when its FortiGuard subscription is valid. |
Regions
Data centers are located in Canada and Germany for better performance and GDPR compliance for international customers. FortiLAN Cloud includes the Global, Europe, and Japan regions.
Network Port Numbers
The following table lists the network port numbers used by FortiLAN Cloud.
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Purpose |
Protocol |
Port number |
|---|---|---|
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Customer UI and API access |
HTTPS |
TCP/443 |
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FortiAP initial discovery |
HTTPS |
TCP/443 |
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FortiAP CAPWAP (configuration, event logs, and statistics) |
CAPWAP |
UDP/5246, UDP/5247 |
|
FortiAP UTP logs |
— |
TCP/514 |
|
FortiAP firmware download |
HTTPS |
TCP/8443 |
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FortiAP FortiGuard services (FortiAP-S/FortAP-U series) |
— |
UDP/53, UDP/8888 |
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FortiAP to FortiPresence |
— |
UDP/4013 |
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FortiSwitch |
— |
TCP/443, TCP/8443 |