Maybe you have already noticed (or maybe you have been informed by our Fortinet Firmware Update mailing list) that Fortinet has released of some new FortiOS patches on Feb. 7, 2024. To be more precise – all Fortinet minor and major versions that are running on Fortigate models that are…
In this post we want to share some of the most seen reasons for slow performance on FortiGate appliances with you. This are experiences we’ve made in our support department and is not a concluding list.
Maybe you have read in the “New Features” Guide for 7.4 about this new feature: “Prevent FortiGates with an expired support contract from upgrading to a major or minor firmware release”. Here it is explained that you cannot upgrade your Fortigate to a higher major or minor version (eg. upgrading…
Last Update 11.08.2025: It was not so long ago that Fortinet replaced the old NSE levels with new certification levels. We already wrote an article about this last year in this blog post. Nevertheless, let’s take a look at how you can recertify our new Fortinet certifications: Basically, recertification is…
Since FortiOS 7.4.2 it is possible to log into your FortiGate WebAdmin locally or via the remote management feature in the FortiGate Cloud using the FortiCloud IAM credentials. The configuration procedure is quite simple and documented in this Fortinet KB article. A very important detail from this article is the…
SD-WAN is a cool feature to configure redundant internet access. But it was designed with load-balancing in mind and this brings some challenges to specific use cases. As an example, while you can use SD-WAN rules to define the preferred path for a specific application/system, it won’t prevent that the…
We are happy to present you the new cheat sheet for FortiOS version 7.4.If you have an idea for the cheat sheet, please let us know in the comments. (Updated to v1.2, 17.02.2025) We wish you good luck with troubleshooting.
PAN-OS Root and Default Certificate are going to expire on December 31, 2023 which will make Firewalls and Panorama to lose connectivity to Palo Alto Networks cloud services.This will potentially cause outages and impact network traffic.
Limited throughput on network devices is a common problem. We handle a lot of cases with thtroughput issues and have written a guide on how we recommend to start troubleshooting in such cases.
Traffic can be UTM inspected on the FortiGate either flow-based or proxy-based. Both inspection modes have advantages and disadvantages. Therefore it is very important to use the right inspection mode for the concerning purpose.
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