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
SD-WAN Manager
- SD-WAN Network
  - SD-WAN Devices
  - SD-WAN Monitor
- SD-WAN Templates
- SD-WAN overlay orchestration
- SD-WAN rules
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
FortiAI
- Enabling administrator access to FortiAI
- Using FortiAI
- FortiAI data privacy
- FortiAI tokens
- FortiAI example tasks
FortiGuard
- Device licenses
  - View licensing status
- Package management
- Query services
- Firmware images
- External resources
- Settings
- Enabling FDN third-party SSL validation and Anycast support
- Configuring devices to use the built-in FDS
  - Handling connection attempts from unauthorized devices
  - Configure a FortiManager without Internet connectivity to access a local FortiManager as 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)
- Fabric Management
- 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
- Multi-factor authentication
  - Multi-factor authentication with FortiAuthenticator
    - Configuring FortiAuthenticator
    - Configuring FortiManager
  - Multi-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
- 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
Appendix E - FortiAI token entitlements for FortiManager
Change Log

Home FortiManager 7.6.1 Administration Guide

7.6.1

Template prerequisites and network planning

Before creating the SD-WAN overlay template, the following prerequisites and network planning steps should be completed:

Prerequisites

Import the FortiGate devices that will make up the hub and branch devices into FortiManager. See Add devices.
Configure the ISP links and other interfaces on your imported devices.
Create one or more device groups for your branch devices. See Device groups

Network planning

Allocate the overlay network address space. By default, the template uses 10.10.0.0/16.
Allocate the loopback IP address space. By default, the template uses 172.16.0.0/16.
Select an AS number for BGP for the new SD-WAN overlay region. By default, the template uses 65000.

For more information, see SD-WAN overlay template IP network design

Note that the overlay template does not provide any SD-WAN intelligence. Please configure an SD-WAN template to complete the SD-WAN configuration. The overlay template also assumes connectivity between the HUB and branch in order to build the overlay tunnels. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as static routes, dynamic routing protocol (BGP) or through a DHCP provided static route.