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Repairing FortiAnalyzer when disk are in Read-Only mode

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Maintenance Mode indicates that the system is unable to detect the hard drives, the hard drives cannot be correctly mounted, or the disk is experiencing corruption. If the hard drives have no physical issues this can be fixed by repairing the file system:Note: this command will reboot the system. If the file system repair does … Read more

Fortigate Best practices – CLI Examples

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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 easier debug on switches. *Remember to change the values to match your desired naming scheme Limit the management users to only login from specific ip … Read more

Fortigate Best practices – Introduction

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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 By utilizing a management interface, the separation of management and production traffic is facilitated, enabling distinct policies tailored for specific purposes. This approach enhances the … Read more

Enable remote connections in Forticonverter

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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 concerns, the default configuration only allows connections from users on the localhost.   To enable remote access to the web application Run notepad as an … Read more

Forgot admin password on a Fortigate

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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 SN IN UPPER CASE> Example of password bcpbFG100FTK19015233