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Administration Guide

What's new in FortiNAC 8.3
Introduction
- Additional help
- Requirements
- DNS configuration for administrators
- IPv6 support
- Login to FortiNAC
- Admin user interface connection errors
- Licensing
- Navigation
- Menus
- Passwords
- Time stamps and time zones
- Accessing analytics
- Icons
- Certificates
Dashboard
- Add a panel
- Alarm
- Host summary
- Network device summary
- Details list view
- License information
- Performance
- Persistent Agent summary
- Scans
- Summary
- Security summary
- User summary
- Views
- Manage hosts and ports
- Locate
- Guest accounts
- Send messages to hosts
Quick start
- Guest/contractor templates
- Guest or contractor accounts
  - Create guest/contractor accounts
  - Provide login information
- Containers
- Network devices
- Wireless security
- L2 polling (resync hosts)
- L3 polling (IP address to MAC address)
- Learning about hosts on the network
- Network device groups
- Portal configuration
Settings
- Authentication
- Control
- Identification
- Network device
- Persistent Agent settings
- Reports settings
- Security settings
  - Portal SSL
  - Certificate management
- System communication
- System management
- Updates
- User/host management
Device profiler
- Device profiling process
- Device profiler implementation
- Device profiling rules
- Administrative user profiles for device managers
- Add an administrative user for device profiler
- Device profiler events and alarms
- Profiled devices
Monitor devices
- View and register known devices
- Isolate unknown devices
- Control access based on device types
- View logs and reports
Policies
- Policy assignment
- User/host profiles
- Portal policies
- Authentication policies
- Authentication configuration
  - Add/modify a policy
  - Delete a configuration
- Network access policies
- Network access configurations
- Endpoint compliance policies
- Endpoint compliance configurations
- Scans
- Supplicant EasyConnect policies
- Supplicant configurations
- Policy details
- Remediation configuration
- Policy simulator
Endpoint compliance
- Implementation
- Agent overview
- Dissolvable Agent
- Passive Agent
- Persistent Agent
- Mobile Agent
- Agent server communications
- Auto-Definition updates
- Send a message to group/all hosts
Role management
- Configuration
- Assigning roles
- Roles
- Network device roles
  - Add a role
  - Modify/delete a role
Guest manager
- Implementation
- Guest/contractor templates
- Admin profiles
- Administrative users
- Portal page setup for version 1
- Portal page setup for version 2
- Printer settings for guest badges
- Events and alarms
- Sponsors
- Guest/contractor login
- Using a kiosk
- Guest self-registration
Automated Threat Response (ATR)
- Implementation
- Security rules
  - Add/modify a rule
  - Delete a rule
- Triggers
- Security actions
- Security alarms
- Security events
User view
- Configure table columns and tooltips
- Search and filter options
- User view and search settings
- User drill-down
- User properties
- Add/modify a user
- Delete a user
- Add users to groups
- User group membership
- Policy details
- Policy simulator
- Guest account details
- Set user expiration date
Admin profiles and permissions
- Default administrator profiles
- Permissions list
- Add an admin profile
- Modify admin profiles
- Modify admin profiles for administrator users
- Delete an admin profile
- Copy an admin profile
- Admin profile mappings
Admin users
- Add an admin user
- Modify an admin user
- Delete an admin user
- Copy an admin user
- Modify a user's admin profile
- User theme
- Limit admin access with groups
- Set admin privileges based on directory groups
- Add admin users to groups
- Admin user group membership
- Configure secure mode
Import and export data
- Import archived data
- Import hosts, users or devices
- Import admin users
- Import IP ranges
- CLI import tool
  - Create .csv files for device import
  - Import devices with the CLI tool
- Import port descriptions
- Export data
Topology view
- Topology tree contact status
- Find containers or devices
- Control access
  - Containers
  - Network summary
- Customer icon
- Container icon
- Device view
- Device configuration
- Ports view
- SSID view
  - SSID configuration
  - Modify multiple SSIDs
Hosts, adapters, and applications
- USB/Thunderbolt external Ethernet adapters
- Host view
- Adapter view
- Aging out host or user records
- Application view
Device identity
Groups view
- Add groups
- Copy a group
- Delete a group
- Limit user access with groups
- Modify a group
- Display group membership
- Show group members
- Group in use
- Aging hosts in a group
- System groups
- Customer defined groups
Admin auditing
- Configuration
- Accessing the auditing log
Scheduler view
- Add a task
- Add other scheduled tasks
- Copy a task
- Delete a task
- Modify a task
- Run task now
Event management
- Enable and disable events
- Event thresholds
- Log events to an external log host
- Examples of syslog messages
- View events currently mapped to alarms
Events view
- Event notes
- Events and alarms list
Alarms view
- Show/hide alarm details
- Map events to alarms
- Add or modify alarm mapping
- Bulk modify alarm mappings
- Delete alarm mapping
Reports view
- Standard report templates
- Custom reports
- Schedule reports
- Archived reports
- Compliance reports
  - PCI reports
  - Download or run compliance report templates
- Crystal reports
Scan results view
- Show details
- Archive and clear all scans
- Archive and clear selected scans
Connections view
CLI configuration
- Configuration in use
- Show configuration
- Port based and host based configurations
- Add/modify a configuration
- Sample configurations
- Implement configurations
- Port changes view
- Requirements for ACL based configurations
High availability
- Server communication
- Using a shared IP Address (Layer 2)
- Servers on different subnets (Layer 3)
- Connectivity configuration
- Primary and secondary configuration
- Update software
- High availability concepts
- Troubleshooting tips
Receive data from external devices
Send SMS messages
REST API
- API URLs
- Alarms
- Specific alarm
- Acknowledge alarm
- Containers - bulk
- Specific container
- Control tasks
- Control task items
- Control task - scan by endpoint ID
- Device identities
- Specific device identity
- Profiled devices
- Specific profiled devices
- Register a profiled device
- Device profiling rules
- Specific device profiling rule
- Endpoint
- Specific endpoint
- Endpoints - bulk
- Specific endpoint adapter
- Add or update an endpoint - FORM
- Add or update an dndpoint - JSON/XML
- Bulk add or update endpoints - JSON/XML
- Events
- Specific event
- Group
- Specific group
- Add or update a group
- Delete a group
- Specific network device
- Network devices - bulk
- Specific network port
- Service
- Scheduled tasks
- Run a scheduled task
- Specific scheduled task
- Users
- Add or update a user
- Add or update a user - FORM
- Add or update a user - JSON/XML
- Vendor OUIs
- Specific vendor OUI
- Troubleshooting REST API
Appendix A: Scan parameters
- Anti-Virus parameters - Windows
- Anti-Virus parameters - macOS
- Operating system parameters - Windows
- Operating systems parameters - macOS
Appendix B: Portal page contents fields
Appendix C: Security event severity level mappings

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