Introduction
FortiSwitch Cloud provides management as a service (MaaS) for secure switching infrastructure deployed with FortiSwitch devices. It provides a centralized discovery, visibility, and configuration management solution without the need of on-premise hardware, software, or management overhead.
FortiSwitch Cloud manages FortiSwitch devices in standalone mode.
Services available
- Dynamic discovery of a device
- Account dashboard
- Quick snapshot of online devices and PoE power
- Bandwidth usage
- Critical events
- Multi-user support for an account
- List and detail view of all devices added on the account
- Device-level interface with global view
- Connect to a device (CLI or GUI) individually from portal
- Upgrade device software
- Back up, modify, and restore device configuration
- Check the status of each FortiSwitch unit (online or offline)
- Check the port configuration for all FortiSwitch units
- Decrease debugging time if you need assistance from FortiCare Support Services
- Topology display
- Port administration-status configuration
- PoE configuration
- Switch interface list
- Trunk (LAG) configuration
- VLAN assignment to ports
- List of MAC addresses configured for each FortiSwitch unit
- System and audit logs
- Zero-touch configuration
- Switch groups
- Scheduled switch upgrades
- Email notifications
- Support token authentication for REST API
- Packet capture
- Auto topology
- Scheduled daily backups
- VLAN configuration
- VLAN templates
- Remote authentication
- Port security
Supported models
FortiSwitch Cloud supports all FortiSwitch units running FortiSwitchOS Release 6.0.0 or later.
Whatʼs new in FortiSwitch Cloud version 20.4.0
The following is a list of new features and enhancements in FortiSwitch Cloud version 20.4.0:
- You can now configure RADIUS and TACACS authentication for multiple FortiSwitch units.
- You can now manage RADIUS and TACACS servers.
- You can now create remote authentication server groups for RADIUS and TACACS servers.
- You can now configure 802.1x port-based or MAC-based authentication on an interface and edit the global 802.1x-authentication settings.
- You can now use quotation marks around a search term to limit results to exact matches.
How this guide is organized
This guide is organized into the following sections:
- How to get started describes what to do to use FortiSwitch Cloud.
- Dashboard describes how to use the Dashboard page to see a snapshot of FortiSwitch activity that occurred in the last 24 hours.
- Topology describes how to view the switch topology.
- Switch describes how to use the Switch page to manage the FortiSwitch configuration and to use switch tags.
- Configuration describes how to use the Configuration page to configure switches, ports, interfaces, VLANs, and remote authentication servers and to create zero-touch configurations, scheduled upgrades, packet capture profiles, VLAN templates, and user groups.
- Monitor describes how to use the Monitor page to check modules, MAC addresses, switch and port statistics; FortiSwitch units using PoE, LLDP, or 802.1x authentication; STP instances; DHCP-snooping and IGMP-snooping databases; logs; and the status of zero-touch configurations, scheduled upgrades, and packet captures.
- My Account describes how to use the My Account page to review your account, deploy FortiSwitch units to FortiSwitch Cloud, and change your notification and backup settings.