Special Notices

This section highlights some of the operational changes that administrators should be aware of in FortiSOAR release 7.6.0.

Changes to FortiSOAR Licensing

In release 7.6.0, two new license editions have been added and the trial license has been updated:

• HA Edition: This edition enables an instance to operate as a High Availability (HA) node in a clustered setup. If not included as a cluster node, it can function as a standalone instance supporting 2 users and 1000 actions per day. The HA edition is available for both 'Perpetual' and 'Subscription' licenses and can be used in all environments supporting HA configurations. The 'HA' license should be applied to the node designated as the 'Secondary' node of the cluster, not the 'Primary' node. Additionally, all existing licenses installed on secondary nodes can be converted to the HA license, except for the Dedicated Tenant (Single User Locked), and vice versa.
  NOTE: HA License can only be used in conjunction with the FortiSOAR base license. Other licenses, such as TIM or additional users, do not need to be duplicated, and therefore are not applicable to the HA edition.
• Starter Edition: Priced lower than the full "Enterprise" edition, this edition offers small to medium-sized enterprises or teams within larger organizations an affordable way to access advanced security orchestration capabilities. It also allows the use of FortiSOAR as a development or staging instance without requiring a full FortiSOARedition. The Starter edition supports up to 2 users and 10,000 actions per day by default and does not include multi-tenancy support.
• Trial License Changes: Starting from release 7.6.0, the trial license for FortiSOAR restricts usage to 2 users and 1000 actions per day. Previously, the trial license was limited to 3 users and 200 actions per day under the "Enterprise" type. Users now have the option to select either the "Enterprise" or "Multi-Tenant" edition for this license.
  Key Points for Existing Users:

  • Users who have activated their trial license previously will retain their current action count of 200. If after upgrading you do not see the new action count of 1000, you should contact Fortinet Support to clear your existing trial license from your FortiSOAR system and then reactivate the trial license to get the updated action count of 1000.

  • Users with an active trial license will remain on the "Enterprise" edition. To switch to the "Multi-Tenant (Manager)" edition, contact Fortinet Support to decommission their current trial and re-register for a new trial license with the "Multi-Tenant (Manager)" edition.

For more information, see the Licensing FortiSOAR chapter in the "Deployment Guide."

Changes to the manual upgrade process for FSR Agent

In release 7.6.0, the Perform Manual Upgrade button has been removed from the 'Agent Upgrade' dialog. Users can now directly click the Download Agent Installer link in the Agent Upgrade dialog to manually upgrade their FSR agent if the automatic upgrade fails for any reason.
For details, see the Segmented Network Support chapter in the "Administration Guide."