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Getting Started with FortiGate

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Getting Started with FortiGate

Overview of this book

FortiGate from Fortinet is a highly successful family of appliances enabled to manage routing and security on different layers, supporting dynamic protocols, IPSEC and VPN with SSL, application and user control, web contents and mail scanning, endpoint checks, and more, all in a single platform. The heart of the appliance is the FortiOS (FortiOS 5 is the latest release) which is able to unify a friendly web interface with a powerful command line to deliver high performance. FortiGate is able to give users the results they usually achieve at a fraction of the cost of what they would have to invest with other vendors.This practical, hands-on guide addresses all the tasks required to configure and manage a FortiGate unit in a logical order. The book starts with topics related to VLAN and routing (static and advanced) and then discusses in full the UTM features integrated in the appliance. The text explains SSL VPN and IPSEC VPN with all the required steps you need to deploy the aforementioned solutions. High availability and troubleshooting techniques are also explained in the last two chapters of the book.This concise, example-oriented book explores all the concepts you need to administer a FortiGate unit. You will begin by covering the basic tools required to administer a FortiGate unit, including NAT, routing, and VLANs. You will then be guided through the concepts of firewalling, UTM inside the appliance, tunnelling using SSL, and IPSEC and dial-up configurations. Next, you will get acquainted with important topics like high availability and Vdoms. Finally, you will end the book with an overview of troubleshooting tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Configuring the SSL VPN portal


To enable SSL VPN portal operations, it is required that we act on different services of our FortiGate unit. We need to configure the following items.

SSL VPN settings:

  • SSL VPN portal

  • Users and groups

  • Policy

Configuring the SSL VPN settings

First step is the configuration of the base parameters in the Config menu (navigate to VPN | SSL | Config). We can see the available options in the following screenshot, including Addresses that will be dedicated to the SSL VPN clients (using tunnel mode), the type of SSL server certificate (Server Certificate) we will use, Idle Timeout, and the Login port options:

Note

We can configure a subnet or a range of addresses to use as an IP Pool. Both the aforementioned addresses are managed using the Address menu (navigate to Firewall Objects | Address | Address) as we have seen in the section Addresses in Chapter 2, Filters, Policies, and Endpoint Security.

Configuring the SSL VPN portal

The Portal menu (navigate to VPN | SSL | Portal...