Executive summary

This guide provides the steps necessary to easily deploy a large quantity of FortiGates complete with NGFW capabilities and SD-WAN intelligence. The benefits of FortiManager mass-deployment include: reduction in deployment costs with regards to time and man-power, large reduction in human error through consistency, built-in configuration verification with audit trails, and a built-in staging environment with the ability to onboard a select few FortiGates to test the procedure.

The deployment is all done from a single pane of glass which can also provide real time monitoring and troubleshooting of the devices post install.