Administration Guide

Setting up FortiManager
- Connecting to the GUI
  - FortiManager Setup wizard
  - Activating VM licenses
- Security considerations
- GUI overview
- FortiAnalyzer Features
  - Enable or disable FortiAnalyzer features
- Initial setup
- Restarting and shutting down
FortiManager Key Concepts
- Communication through protocols
- Configuration through Device Manager
- ADOMs and devices
- Operations
- Key features of the FortiManager system
Dashboard
- Customizing the dashboard
- System Information widget
- System Resources widget
- License Information widget
- Unit Operation widget
- Alert Messages Console widget
- Log Receive Monitor widget
- Insert Rate vs Receive Rate widget
- Log Insert Lag Time widget
- Receive Rate vs Forwarding Rate widget
- Disk I/O widget
- Device widgets
- Restart, shut down, or reset FortiManager
Device Manager
- ADOMs
- Device & Groups
- Scripts
- Provisioning Templates
- Firmware templates
- Monitors
- FortiMeter
- FortiGate chassis devices
  - Viewing chassis dashboard
Policy & Objects
- About policies
  - Policy theory
  - Global policy packages
- Policy workflow
  - Provisioning new devices
  - Day-to-day management of devices
- Feature visibility
- Managing policy packages
- Managing policies
- Using Policy Blocks
- Managing objects and dynamic objects
- ADOM revisions
AP Manager
- Managed FortiAPs
- WiFi Maps
  - Google map
  - Floor map
- WiFi profiles and settings for central management
- WiFi profiles and settings for per-device management
  - Enabling FortiAP per-device management
  - Creating profiles
VPN Manager
- Overview
- Enabling central VPN management
- DDNS support
- VPN Setup Wizard supports device groups
- IPsec VPN
- SSL VPN
- VPN security policies
  - Defining policy addresses
  - Defining security policies
Fabric View
- Security Fabric Topology
- Security Rating
  - Viewing Security Fabric Ratings
  - Security Fabric score
- Fabric Connectors
  - Core Network Security
    - Creating FortiClient EMS connectors
- External Connectors
- Cloud Orchestration
FortiGuard
- Device licenses
  - View licensing status
- Package management
- Query services
- Firmware images
- Download prioritization
  - Product download prioritization
  - Package download prioritization
- External resources
- Settings
- Enabling FDN third-party SSL validation and Anycast support
- Configuring devices to use the built-in FDS
- Configuring FortiGuard services
- Logging events related to FortiGuard services
  - Logging FortiGuard antivirus and IPS updates
  - Logging FortiGuard web or email filter events
- Restoring the URL or antispam database
FortiSwitch Manager
- Managed FortiSwitches
- FortiSwitch central management
  - Enabling FortiSwitch central management
  - FortiSwitch Templates
- FortiSwitch per-device management
Extender Manager
- Managed extenders
  - Managing FortiExtender devices
- Extender profiles
System Settings
- Logging Topology
- Network
- RAID Management
- Administrative Domains (ADOMs)
- Certificates
- Event Log
  - Event log filtering
- Task Monitor
- Mail Server
- Syslog Server
  - Send local logs to syslog server
- Meta Fields
- Device logs
  - Configuring rolling and uploading of logs using the GUI
  - Configuring rolling and uploading of logs using the CLI
- File Management
- Miscellaneous Settings
Administrators
- Trusted hosts
- Monitoring administrators
- Disconnecting administrators
- Managing administrator accounts
- Restricted administrators
- Administrator profiles
- Workspace
- Authentication
- Global administration settings
- Two-factor authentication
  - Two-factor authentication with FortiAuthenticator
    - Configuring FortiAuthenticator
    - Configuring FortiManager
  - Two-factor authentication with FortiToken Cloud
High Availability
- Synchronizing the FortiManager configuration and HA heartbeat
- If the primary or a backup unit fails
- FortiManager HA cluster startup steps
- Configuring HA options
  - General FortiManager HA configuration steps
  - GUI configuration steps
- Monitoring HA status
- Upgrading the FortiManager firmware for an operating cluster
Management Extensions
- FortiAIOps MEA
- FortiSigConverter MEA
- FortiSOAR MEA
- FortiWLM MEA
- Policy Analyzer MEA
- Universal Connector MEA
- Enabling management extension applications
  - CLI for management extensions
- Accessing management extension logs
- Checking for new versions and upgrading
Appendix A - Supported RFC Notes
Appendix B - Policy ID support
Appendix C - Re-establishing the FGFM tunnel after VM license migration
Appendix D - FortiManager Ansible Collection documentation
Change Log

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7.4.2

Change Log

Date	Change Description
2023-12-21	Initial release.
2024-01-17	Updated : Configuring network interfaces Configuring devices to use the built-in FDS
2024-01-18	Added Google Map integration.
2024-01-22	Added Migrate an SD-WAN Orchestrator configuration into SD-WAN templates.
2024-01-25	Updated Using FortiManager device database variables in Jinja.
2024-01-29	Updated Remotely access a managed FortiGate.
2024-02-15	Updated Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) objects.
2024-02-12	Updated Google map.
2024-03-22	Updated FortiManager supports FortiGate auto-scale clusters
2024-03-25	Updated The session list
2024-04-05	Updated Managing FortiGate HA clusters
2024-04-12	Updated Idle timeout.
2024-04-25	Updated Delete an object.

Change Log

Date	Change Description
2023-12-21	Initial release.
2024-01-17	Updated : Configuring network interfaces Configuring devices to use the built-in FDS
2024-01-18	Added Google Map integration.
2024-01-22	Added Migrate an SD-WAN Orchestrator configuration into SD-WAN templates.
2024-01-25	Updated Using FortiManager device database variables in Jinja.
2024-01-29	Updated Remotely access a managed FortiGate.
2024-02-15	Updated Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) objects.
2024-02-12	Updated Google map.
2024-03-22	Updated FortiManager supports FortiGate auto-scale clusters
2024-03-25	Updated The session list
2024-04-05	Updated Managing FortiGate HA clusters
2024-04-12	Updated Idle timeout.
2024-04-25	Updated Delete an object.

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