Overview

This document provides the steps for a customer to migrate their existing FortiNAC virtual appliance with the CentOS operating system to new FortiNAC-F virtual appliance with the FortiNAC-OS operating system (FNC-CAX-VM). It assumes the customer is using perpetual endpoint licenses.

Once migration is complete, the FortiNAC-F appliance will have the license, entitlements and configuration as the original FortiNAC appliance.

Requirements

• FortiNAC must be using perpetual endpoint licenses (Support Type = License Support). To confirm, login to the Customer Portal (https://support.fortinet.com) and review the Entitlements section.

  

• Registration codes for the FortiNAC-OS appliances

• Existing FortiNAC CentOS appliances should be running one of the following versions

  • FortiNAC Software Versions

    • v9.1.10 or greater

    • v9.2.8 or greater

    • v9.4.3 or greater

    • v7.2.2 or greater

• New FortiNAC-OS appliances should be running FortiNAC Software Version F7.2.2 or greater for the migration tools

• F7.2.5, F7.4.0 or greater: Migration tool may need to be copied from the FortiNAC-OS appliance to CentOS appliances during the data collection step. The FortiNAC-OS performs a version check during cutover. If the migration tool used is not the same version, an error occurs. For details, see KB article 292261 (https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiNAC-F/Technical-Tip-How-to-Migrate-a-Standalone-CentOS-FortiNAC-to/ta-p/292261)

• Temporary management IP address

CLI access to both the CentOS and FortiNAC-OS appliances Considerations

The process outlined and the tools used for this migration is not supported for the following configurations:

• FortiNAC is using subscription endpoint licenses (Support Type = FortiNAC VM)

  

• FortiNAC Control (FNC-C-xx) and Application (FNC-A-xx) Appliance Pairs

• Moving FortiNAC-OS system to another FortiNAC-OS system

Migration Steps

Below are the steps required to complete the migration.

Step 1: Product Registration*

Step 2: Transfer Endpoint License Entitlements*

Step 3: Appliance Installation

Step 4: Generate and Download Keys

Step 5: Appliance Configuration

Step 6: Download & Install New License Key

--- PERFORM REMAINING STEPS DURING MAINTENANCE WINDOW* ---

Step 7: Collect & Transfer CentOS Migration Data

Step 8: Cutover to New Appliance

*See Preparation Checklist for suggested timelines to complete step.