Guest Management

Visitors to your premises might need user accounts on your network for the duration of their stay. If you are hosting a large event such as a conference, you might need to create many such temporary accounts. The FortiProxy Guest Management feature is designed for this purpose.

A guest user account User ID can be the userʼs email address, a randomly generated string, or an ID that the administrator assigns. Similarly, the password can be administrator-assigned or randomly generated.

You can create many guest accounts at the same time using randomly generated User IDs and passwords. This reduces administrator workload for large events.

To set up guest user access, you need to create at least one guest user group and add guest user accounts. Optionally, you can create a guest management administrator whose only function is the creation of guest accounts in specific guest user groups. Otherwise, any administrator can do guest management.

To manage guest access, go to User & Authentication > Guest Management.

NOTE: You must create a user group with the Guest group type before the toolbar is displayed on the Guest Management page.

Hover over the leftmost edge of the column heading to display the Configure Table icon, which you can use to select the columns to display or to reset all the columns to their default settings. You can also drag column headings to change their order.

The following options are available:

Create New > User	Create a guest user account. See Create or edit a guest user account.
Create New > Multiple Users	Create more than one guest user account at the same time. See Create multiple guest user accounts.
Edit	Modify a guest user account. See Create or edit a guest user account.
Delete	Remove the selected guest user account.
Purge	Remove all expired accounts from the list.
Print	Print the network guest access credentials, including the user identifiers, passwords, and expiration date and time.
Search	Enter a search term to find in the guest user list
User ID	An automatically generated number to identify the guest user.
Expires	Date and time when the guest user account becomes inactive.
Comments	An optional description of the guest user account.