Introduction to FortiManager

Welcome to the Introduction to FortiManager course. In this course you will learn the basics of deploying and managing FortiManager, the central management suite from Fortinet.

Explore each section of the FortiManager configuration:

• Device management where you can add firewalls to you management inventory and configure them remotely and efficiently.
• Creating and managing Administrative domains, which is useful for organizations looking to segregate multi tenancy devices.
• Creating and managing firewall policies for multiple Fortigate firewalls from a single console.
• Leverage shared object database and remote installations for all your security infrastructure.
• Manage firmware version on your Fortigate firewalls, and automate upgrades and downgrades including multi-step ones.
• Utilize global policies to create common used firewall rules or standard policies to be applied to all (or subset) of Fortigate firewalls. Global policies can also be helpful for regulatory or compliance rules that need be applied to multiple devices at once.
• Configure local update server for your Fortigate firewalls, with the ability to roll-back and automate security updates.
• Convert FortiManager into FortiAnalyzer for log aggregation and security incidents management.

Would you like to see more content added? Feel free to message us if you have any special requests or question, we look forward to see you in the course.

What You will learn in this course:

Who is the target audience?

• Firewall Administrators looking for automation and time saving by using central management suite
• Network Administrators looking to manage multiple firewalls at once
• Migration SMEs looking to automate firmware upgrade and rollback ability