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…
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. (Update to v1.1, July 30th, 2024) We wish you good luck with troubleshooting.
Last Friday the first patch for FortiOS 7.4 has been released. As always with a brand new minor or major FortiOS version a lot of issues have been resolved and a lot of new features have been introduced. No Security Fabric root for FG60E/F anymore Interestingly, however, we found an…
Please note the vulnerabilities in Fortinet products published in June. In particular, we would like to mention the vulnerability in FortiOS, which affects SSLVPN access and poses a major threat with a CVSSv3 score of 9.2. Fortinet PSIRT: https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-097CVE: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-27997 Affected are FortiOS versions 6.0 to 7.2. Fortinet has already…
Most of you have already read about the latest release of Fortinet’s new PSIRT advisories. There are 15 new vulnerabilities for FortiOS and other products with severity level from low up to critical. We strongly recommend that you checkt the PSIRT advisories and update your Fortinet products to one of…
We are happy to present you the new cheat sheet for FortiOS version 7.2. Most commands have remained the same.A bigger change is that the Packet Sniffer and the Debug Flow are now also available in the WebUI under Network > Diagnostics. We wish you good luck with troubleshooting.
Sometimes it happens, that FortiOS is not updating it’s antivirus signatures anymore. The monitoring software, a monitoring script or a very attentive administrator is then reporting this problem to the FortiGate admin to fix it. This guide will lead you through the steps to troubleshoot this.
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