Administration Guide

What's new in FortiNAC 8.5
FortiNAC
- Introduction
- Requirements
- DNS configuration
- IPv6 support
- Login procedure
- Admin user interface connection errors
- Licenses
- Navigation
- Menus
- Passwords
- Time stamps and time zones
- 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
Settings
- Authentication
- Control
- Identification
- Network device
- Persistent Agent settings
- Reports
- Security
  - Portal SSL
  - Certificate management
- System communication
- System management
- Updates
- User/host management
Portal configuration
- Splash page
- Portal content editor
- Multiple portals
- Configure authentication credentials
- Portal configuration - version 1 settings
- Content fields
Device profiler
- Process
- Implementation
- 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
- Learning about hosts on the network
- Isolate unknown devices
- Control access based on device types
- View logs and reports
Policies
- Policy assignment
- Policy details
- Policy simulator
- User/host profiles
- Portal policies
- Authentication policies
- Authentication configurations
  - Add or modify a policy
  - Delete a configuration
- Network access policies
- Network access configurations
- Endpoint compliance policies
- Endpoint compliance configurations
- Scans
- Supplicant EasyConnect policies
- Supplicant configurations
- Remediation configurations
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 view
- Network device roles
  - Add role mappings
  - Modify or delete role mapping
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 or modify a rule
  - Delete a rule
- Triggers
- Security actions
- Security alarms
- Security events
User view
- Configure table columns and tooltips
- Search and filter options
- Search settings
- User drill-down
- User properties
- Add or modify a user
- Delete a user
- Add users to groups
- Group membership
- 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
- 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
- Control access
  - Containers
  - Network summary
- Customer icon
- Container icon
- Device view
- Device configuration
- Ports view
- SSID view
  - SSID configuration
  - Modify multiple SSIDs
- Logical networks
Hosts, adapters, and applications
- USB/Thunderbolt external Ethernet adapters
- Host view
- Adapter view
- Aging out host or user records
- Application view
Device identity
Containers view
- Configure container for devices
Network devices
- Network device groups
Groups view
- Add groups
- Copy a group
- Delete a group
- Limit user access with groups
- Modify a group
- 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 or 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
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 or 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
Wireless security
- Auto-configured data
- SSID mappings
- Secure SSID for guest management
- Open SSID for guest management
- Secure SSID for device onboarding
- Open SSID for device onboarding
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: Security event severity level mappings

Home FortiNAC 8.5.2 Administration Guide

8.5.2

Admin user interface connection errors

The table below contains a list of errors that could be displayed if you have problems connecting to the Admin User Interface.

Message	Code	Definition
Unable to connect to host <hostname>	1050	Indicates that FortiNAC was unable to open the port and contact the server. Possible reasons include: Access could be blocked by a firewall. Java cache may need to be cleared. Host name may be missing from the hosts file. See DNS configuration for the location of the hosts file based on your operating system. Server may be down.

Message

Code

Definition

Unable to connect to host
<hostname>

1050

Indicates that FortiNAC was unable to open the port and contact the server. Possible reasons include:

Access could be blocked by a firewall.

Java cache may need to be cleared.

Host name may be missing from the hosts file. See DNS configuration for the location of the hosts file based on your operating system.

Server may be down.