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Administration Guide

Organization of the guide

Organization of the guide

The FortiPAM Administration Guide contains the following sections:

  • FortiPAM installation describes basic setup information for getting started with your FortiPAM.
  • Licensing describes how to register, download, and upload your FortiPAM-VM license.
  • Dashboard contains widgets providing performance and status information.
  • Secrets describes features and options related to secrets, targets, gateways, folders, secret and job requests, approval lists, jobs, and discovery.
  • Secret settings describes features and options related to templates, launchers, policies, classification tags, addresses, dependency updaters, approval profiles, approval email templates, password changers and policies, character sets, antivirus, DLP, DLP file pattern, SSH filter profiles, Windows app filter profiles, event filter profile, and integrity check.
  • User management describes managing FortiPAM user database.
  • Monitoring contains information on user logins and active sessions on FortiPAM.
  • Log & report describes how to view logs and reports on FortiPAM.
  • Network describes configuring interfaces, static routes, DNS settings, fabric connectors, and packet capture.
  • System describes managing and configuring basic system settings for FortiPAM. It also contains settings related to ZTNA, HA, certificates, replacement messages, SNMP, automatic backups, firmware, FortiPAM, and FortiGuard licenses.

Organization of the guide

Organization of the guide

The FortiPAM Administration Guide contains the following sections:

  • FortiPAM installation describes basic setup information for getting started with your FortiPAM.
  • Licensing describes how to register, download, and upload your FortiPAM-VM license.
  • Dashboard contains widgets providing performance and status information.
  • Secrets describes features and options related to secrets, targets, gateways, folders, secret and job requests, approval lists, jobs, and discovery.
  • Secret settings describes features and options related to templates, launchers, policies, classification tags, addresses, dependency updaters, approval profiles, approval email templates, password changers and policies, character sets, antivirus, DLP, DLP file pattern, SSH filter profiles, Windows app filter profiles, event filter profile, and integrity check.
  • User management describes managing FortiPAM user database.
  • Monitoring contains information on user logins and active sessions on FortiPAM.
  • Log & report describes how to view logs and reports on FortiPAM.
  • Network describes configuring interfaces, static routes, DNS settings, fabric connectors, and packet capture.
  • System describes managing and configuring basic system settings for FortiPAM. It also contains settings related to ZTNA, HA, certificates, replacement messages, SNMP, automatic backups, firmware, FortiPAM, and FortiGuard licenses.