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.