Who should attend
Anyone who is responsible for day-to-day management of many FortiGate devices via the FortiManager platform.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of firewalling concepts in an IPv4 network
- Familiarity with all topics in FortiGate I and FortiGate II
- Basic understanding of network management systems
Course Objectives
- Describe capabilities of FortiManager
- Add FortiGate devices to Device Manager and import their running configuration
- Use provisioning templates and scripts for device-level changes across many devices
- Identify the synchronization states
- Manage the revision history of managed devices
- Offer a local FortiGuard Distribution Server to your Fortinet devices
- Deploy administrative domains (ADOMs) to support multiple customers on a single FortiManager
- Manage firewall policies across multiple FortiGate devices using policy packages with shared and dynamic objects
- Deploy policies and objects from the global ADOM to multiple ADOMs
- Explain high availability, backup, and recovery options for FortiManager
- Compare methods for centrally managing IPsec VPNs
- Explain the restricted "admin" profile and API high-level usage
- Use workspaces and workflow mode
- Identify steps to replace a managed FortiGate device
- Manage FortiGate devices' firmware centrally
Course Content
- Introduction to FortiManager
- System Settings
- Device Manager
- Policy & Objects
- Additional System Operations