Fortigate Best practices – CLI Examples
Management *Missing from this guide. Management users from central user database ( LDAP, SAML etc ) Configure the web management portsHostname and the Alias of the firewalls.I enable LLDP for…
Read moreFortigate Best practices – Introduction
Management Network Should be independent from production or business traffic, it does not have to compete for resources and management access can be maintained when reconfiguring the production network. Policies…
Read moreAdd VLAN to a Lenovo switch in a MCLAG cluster
There are consistency check in the Lenovo swtiches when they are participating in a MCLAG cluster. Therefor the switche will shutdown the ports if there are an inconsistency between the…
Read moreMicrosoft CA Server installation
Install the Windows feature. Open powershell as admin and execute the following command I strongly reccomend to not use the server name as the CA Common Name, since this will…
Read moreSCP into an arista switch
The username you use must be defined explicitly with “privilege 15” as part of the definition, so it will look like this perhaps: That puts your user in privileged mode…
Read moreFortigate – Airprint multicast forwarding between two different subnets
1) Enable Multicast forwarding: 2) Interface configuration:Two different interface having two different IP addresses assigned. 3) Configuring Multicast Policies: 4) Check if multicast routing is enabled or not:
Read moreEnable remote connections in Forticonverter
The new FortiConverter is designed as a web application. The application (FortiConverter.py) should be run with Administrator privileges because it reads and writes data from/to high privilege directories. For security…
Read moreForgot admin password on a Fortigate
Factory reset when forgot admin password Reboot the fortigate When the login prompt appears you have max 14 seconds to login with the maintainer account Username: maintainer Password: bcpb<FORTIGATE…
Read moreDiagnose Traffic Flow on a Fortigate
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Read moreWhat is QOS (Quality of Service)
QoS (Quality of Service) is a networking concept that refers to the ability to provide different levels of priority to different types of network traffic. It is used to ensure…
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