Who should attend
Anyone who is responsible for the day-to-day management of FortiGate security policies using the FortiManager platform should attend this course.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of firewall concepts in an IPv4 network
- Familiarity with all topics in FortiGate Administrator (FGT-ADM)
- Basic understanding of network management systems
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the key FortiManager features and concepts
- Understand FortiManager API and meta fields
- Deploy administrative domains (ADOMs) to support multiple customers on a single FortiManager
- Restrict concurrent ADOM access by using workspace modes
- Use provisioning templates for device-level changes across many devices
- Identify the synchronization states and manage the revision history of managed devices
- 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
- Understand the Fortinet Security Fabric with FortiManager
- Describe high-availability (HA), backup, and recovery options for FortiManager
- Manage the firmware of supported devices centrally
- Offer a local FortiGuard Distribution Server (FDS) to your Fortinet devices
- Diagnose and troubleshoot import and installation issues
Detailed Course Outline
- 1. Introduction and Initial Configuration
- 2. Administration and Management
- 3. Device Registration
- 4. Device-Level Configuration and Installation
- 5. Policies and Objects
- 6. Global Database ADOM and Central Management
- 7. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
- 8. Additional Configuration