FortiGate Administration Guide - FirewallShop.com

Introduction
About this document
You can find more information about FortiOS v3.0 from the FortiGate page of the
Fortinet Technical Documentation web site as well as from the Fortinet Knowledge
Center.
This administration guide contains the following chapters:
• Web-based manager provides an introduction to the features of the FortiGate
web-based manager, the button bar, and includes information about how to
use the web-based manager online help.
• System Status describes the System Status page, the dashboard of your
FortiGate unit. At a glance you can view the current system status of the
FortiGate unit including serial number, uptime, FortiGuard license information,
system resource usage, alert messages and network statistics. This section
also describes status changes that you can make, including changing the unit
firmware, host name, and system time. Finally this section also describes the
topology viewer that is available on all FortiGate models except those with
model numbers 50 and 60.
• Using virtual domains describes how to use virtual domains to operate your
FortiGate unit as multiple virtual FortiGate units, providing separate firewall
and routing services to multiple networks.
• System Network explains how to configure physical and virtual interfaces and
DNS settings on the FortiGate unit.
• System Wireless describes how to configure the Wireless LAN interface on a
FortiWiFi-60 unit.
• System DHCP provides information about how to configure a FortiGate
interface as a DHCP server or DHCP relay agent.
• System Config contains procedures for configuring HA and virtual clustering,
configuring SNMP and replacement messages, and changing the operation
mode.
• System Administrators guides you through adding and editing administrator
accounts, defining access profiles for administrators, configuring central
management using the FortiGuard Management Service or FortiManager,
defining general administrative settings such as language, timeouts, and web
administration ports.
• System Maintenance details how to back up and restore the system
configuration using a management computer or a USB disk, use revision
control, enable FortiGuard services and FortiGuard Distribution Network (FDN)
updates, and enter a license key to increase the maximum number of virtual
domains.
• System Chassis (FortiGate-5000 series) describes information displayed on
the system chassis web-based manager pages about all of the hardware
components in your FortiGate-5140 or FortiGate-5050 chassis.
• Switch (FortiGate-224B only) describes how to configure secure switch
features on the FortiGate-224B unit in switch view.
• Router Static explains how to define static routes and create route policies. A
static route causes packets to be forwarded to a destination other than the
factory configured default gateway.
• Router Dynamic contains information about how to configure dynamic
protocols to route traffic through large or complex networks.
• Router Monitor explains how to interpret the Routing Monitor list. The list
displays the entries in the FortiGate routing table.
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