Advanced Wireless Features

By default, the FortiGate GUI hides advanced features to simplify the site layout. You can go to System > Feature Visibility to enable different types advanced features, including Advanced Wireless Features.

After enabling Advanced Wireless Features, several entries in the Navigation bar will change names.

• Operations Profiles Entry: FortiAP, QoS, and FortiAP Configuration.

• Connectivity Profiles Entry: MPSK and Bonjour.

• Protection Profiles Entry: WIDS and L3 Firewall (also known as L3 Access Control List configurations for FortiAPs).

• The following additional advanced wireless features under the Advanced SSID options and Advanced WiFi Settings options become available.

  • SSIDs > Edit Interface.

  • WiFi Settings.

Note that this guide is intended to be used when Advanced Wireless Features is disabled, and therefore uses the default entry names. If a topic covers a feature that requires Advanced Wireless Features to be enabled, it will specify users must first enable Advanced Wireless Features.

To enable Advanced Wireless Features - GUI:

1. From the FortiOS GUI, go to System > Feature Visibility.

2. Under the Additional Features column, locate and enable Advanced Wireless Features.

   

3. Click Apply.

   The Navigation bar reloads with the new features visible.

To enable Advanced Wireless Features - CLI:

config system settings
    set gui-advanced-wireless-features enable
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