If you are not using your account for PSAT admin access on a regular basis, your account will get locked down automatically after 92 days (this is a default value that can be adjusted). Accounts are also being locked after 5 unsuccessfull login attempts by default. To unlock your account, simply ask another administrator to unlock your account using his account.
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One of the very powerful features of FortiGate hardware appliances is the hardware acceleration chipset included in the hardware platform. This allows to forward traffic in specific situations directly from the incoming interface to the outgoing interface without passing the CPU of the system. This can safe a huge amount of system load on your FortiGate.
In most cases, hardware acceleration is working flawlessly. But in some very rare cases, hardware acceleration may cause problems. Or the hardware acceleration is not working at all and the packets have to be handled by the CPU of your FortiGate.
This guide will lead you through the important troubleshooting steps.
«FortiGate hardware acceleration step-by-step troubleshooting» weiterlesen
Here you can find some recommendations how to configure protection in Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows and reduce the impact on the system. The original document written by Evgeniya Kirikova from Kasperksy can be downloaded here.
Recently we have had a few support cases where a customer was unable to log in to the firewall via WebUI after the firmware update. But SSH access worked fine.
It turned out that during the update process the server certificate used for the WebUI is lost.
Config with v6.0.4 (it does not happen with «self-signed» only):
config system global«What’s new with FortiOS 6.2/6.0.8: Update issue with certificate for WebUI» weiterlesen
set admin-server-cert "self-signed"
end
FortiOS v6.2 has been released in March this year and we are still gaining experience with this version. In this article we would like to draw you attention to the protocol which is used for FortiGuard service communication. Up to v6.0 udp has been used, with 6.2 the default protocol has changed to https.
