Network Monitoring Appliances

FortiManager provides automation-driven centralized management of your Fortinet devices from a single console. This process enables full administration and visibility of your network devices through streamlined provisioning and innovative automation tools.

Integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric advanced security architecture and automation driven network operations capabilities provide a solid foundation to secure and optimize your network security.

Single-Pane Management and Provisioning streamlines centralized policy and object management and provisioning, automatic revision history and control, and enhanced role-based access control (RBAC) features for script management and IPS management with role separation.

Fabric Automation simplifies the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) deployment process for SD-Branch (FortiGates and access devices) with powerful templates that directly utilize meta-variables for scalable provisioning to thousands of sites.

Monitoring and Visibilityfor device inventory, applications, SD-WAN, LAN edge, management extension applications (MEAs), traffic, public cloud, and more.

Automation-Driven Centralized Device Management from a Single Console

FortiManager provides automation-driven centralized management of your Fortinet devices from a single console. This process enables full administration and visibility of your network devices through streamlined provisioning and innovative automation tools.

Integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric advanced security architecture and automation driven network operations capabilities provide a solid foundation to secure and optimize your network security. Built-in Fortinet factory default templates with best security practice and relevant network configuration for specific use cases.

Highlights | Single-Pane Management and Provisioning

Single-Pane Management and Provisioning streamlines centralized policy and object management and provisioning, automatic revision history and control, and enhanced role- based access control (RBAC) features for Firewall management and IPS management with role separation.

Fabric Automation

Fabric Automation simplifies the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) deployment process for SD- Branch (FortiGates and access devices) with powerful templates that directly utilize meta- variables for scalable provisioning to thousands of sites.

Monitoring, Visibility, and Troubleshooting

Monitoring and visibility for device inventory, applications, SD-WAN, LAN edge, management extension applications (MEAs), traffic, public cloud, and more.

Built-in speed tests to troubleshoot branch office connectivity and packet capture to investigate LAN related issues.

Key Features

• Centrally manage network and security policies for thousands of FortiGate NGFWs and Secure SD-WAN plus FortiSwitches, FortiAP, and FortiExtender. Provide signature updates to FortiGate, FortiMail, FortiSandbox, and FortiClient
• License management, centralized distribution of security content and signatures through the use of the built-in FortiGuard module which are designed to work in air-gapped networks
• Simplify configuration, deployment, and maintenance for Secure SD-WAN at scale. Accelerate FortiExtender Wireless WAN connectivity with centralized management across distributed sites
• Reduce complexity and costs by leveraging automated REST API, scripts, CLI and Jinja templates, connectors, and automation stitches
• Automate workflows and configurations for Fortinet firewalls, switches, and wireless infrastructure
• Separate customer data and manage domains leveraging ADOMs to be compliant and operationally effective

FortiManager provides Automation-Driven Centralized Management of your Fortinet devices from a single console for full adminstration and visibility of your network devices through streamlined provisioning and innovative automation tools.

Integrated with Fortinet's Security Fabric, the advanced security architecture and FortiManager's Automation Driven Network Operations capabilities provide a solid foundation to secure and optimize your network security.

Single-Pane Management streamlines centralized policy and object management, automatic revision history and control, and enhanced RBAC features for script management and IPS management with role separation.

Security Fabric Automation simplifies the ZTP deployment process for SD-Branch (FortiGates and access devices) with powerful templates that directly utilize metavariables for scalable provisioning to thousands of sites.

NOC Cloud Services offers the FortiManager platform as a service with new management extensions that can be pulled and installed from the cloud.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

Single Pane Management

FortiManager's Single Pane Management provides centralized management and provisioning strategy built around Fortinet's Security Fabric, that tightly integrates an organization's network infrastructure and security architecture to apply access control, segmentation and consistent protection of devices, applications and users.

Device Configuration and Provisioning

FortiManager expands the network administrator's capabilities with a rich set of tools to centrally manage up to 100,000 devices including FortiGates, FortiExtender, FortiSwitch, FortiAPs, SD-WAN and more.

Collectively configure device settings and use new enhanced CLI templates with variables, and provisioning templates to assign firmware and policy packages from a single console, including policy and object revision history for auditing.

FortiManager includes extended SSL and Certificate support for enhanced ssl-ssh-profile configuration, as well as Restricted IPS Admin Profiles to support customers who are transitioning and upgrading from dedicated IPS solutions to Fortinet products.

Automated device configuration backups and revision control make daily administrative tasks easy, with change tracking in the enhanced Event Log view for review of configuration and change detail for auditing & compliance.

FortiManager also now enables Admins to configure and assign custom commands on FortiSwitch and configure MCLAG from the FortiSwitch Manager.

FortiManager provides Automation-Driven Centralized Management of your Fortinet devices from a single console for full adminstration and visibility of your network devices through streamlined provisioning and innovative automation tools.

Integrated with Fortinet's Security Fabric, the advanced security architecture and FortiManager's Automation Driven Network Operations capabilities provide a solid foundation to secure and optimize your network security.

Single-Pane Management streamlines centralized policy and object management, automatic revision history and control, and enhanced RBAC features for script management and IPS management with role separation.

Security Fabric Automation simplifies the ZTP deployment process for SD-Branch (FortiGates and access devices) with powerful templates that directly utilize metavariables for scalable provisioning to thousands of sites.

NOC Cloud Services offers the FortiManager platform as a service with new management extensions that can be pulled and installed from the cloud.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

Single Pane Management

FortiManager's Single Pane Management provides centralized management and provisioning strategy built around Fortinet's Security Fabric, that tightly integrates an organization's network infrastructure and security architecture to apply access control, segmentation and consistent protection of devices, applications and users.

Device Configuration and Provisioning

FortiManager expands the network administrator's capabilities with a rich set of tools to centrally manage up to 100,000 devices including FortiGates, FortiExtender, FortiSwitch, FortiAPs, SD-WAN and more.

Collectively configure device settings and use new enhanced CLI templates with variables, and provisioning templates to assign firmware and policy packages from a single console, including policy and object revision history for auditing.

FortiManager includes extended SSL and Certificate support for enhanced ssl-ssh-profile configuration, as well as Restricted IPS Admin Profiles to support customers who are transitioning and upgrading from dedicated IPS solutions to Fortinet products.

Automated device configuration backups and revision control make daily administrative tasks easy, with change tracking in the enhanced Event Log view for review of configuration and change detail for auditing & compliance.

FortiManager also now enables Admins to configure and assign custom commands on FortiSwitch and configure MCLAG from the FortiSwitch Manager.

Manage all your Fortinet devices in a singleconsole central management system. FortiManager provides full visibility of your network, offering streamlined provisioning and innovative automation tools.

Integrated with Fortinet's Security Fabric, the security architecture and FortiManager's Automation Driven Network Operations capabilities provide a foundation to secure and optimize network security, such as provisioning and monitoring SD-WANs.

Orchestrate security devices and systems on-premise or in the cloud to streamline network provisioning, security policy updates & change management.

Automate your time-intensive processes and accelerate workflows to offload NOC-SOC, reduce administrative tasks and address talent shortages.

Optimize Visibility to the entire digital attack surface and awareness of increasing cyber threats from one centralized location, through accurate detection, automated correlation and rapid response features.

Highlights

Single Pane Automation and Orchestration

Fortinet Security Fabric delivers sophisticated security management for unified, end-to-end protection. Deploying Fortinet-based security infrastructure to battle advanced threats, and adding FortiManager to provide single-pane-of-glass management across your entire extended enterprise provides insight into network-wide traffic and threats. FortiManager offers enterprise-class features to contain advanced threats. FortiManager also delivers the industry's best scalability to manage up to 100,000 Fortinet devices. FortiManager, coupled with the FortiAnalyzer family of centralized logging and reporting appliances, provides a comprehensive and powerful centralized management solution for your organization.

Central Management of Network Infrastructure

Centrally manage FortiGate , FortiSwitch, FortiExtender, FortiAP. The VPN manager simplifies the deployment and allows centrallyprovisioned VPN community and monitoring of VPN connections on Google Map. FortiAP Manager allows configuring, deploying and monitoring FortiAPs from a single console with Google Map view. The FortiClient Manager allows centralized configuration, deployment and monitoring of FortiClients.

Centralized SD-WAN Deployment & Monitoring

Powerful SD-WAN management capabilities by using templates. Enhanced SD-WAN monitoring for each SD-WAN link member with visibility of link status, application performance, bandwidth utilization. The SLA targets are included in performance monitoring graphs for each WAN provider.

Configuration and Settings Management

Collectively configure the device settings - using the provisioning templates and advance CLI templates improves management of a large number of devices. Automatic device configuration backup with revision control and change audit make it easier for daily administrative tasks.

Security Policy Management

A set of commonly used security policies can be now grouped in a Policy Block and inserted as needed in different Policy Packages.

Global policy feature that allows companies such as: Telecom, MSSP, SAAS providers applies a header and/or footer policy at the ADOM level to all the policy packages or to a selection of packages, as needed.

API for Automation and Orchestration

RESTful API allows MSSPs/large enterprises to create customized, branded web portals for policy and object administration. Automate common tasks such as provisioning new FortiGates and configuring existing devices.

FortiManager | Automation-Driven Centralized Management

Manage all your Fortinet devices in a single-console central management system. FortiManager provides full visibility of your network, offering streamlined provisioning and innovative automation tools.

Integrated with Fortinet's Security Fabric, the security architecture and FortiManager's Automation Driven Network Operations capabilities provide a foundation to secure and optimize network security, such as provisioning and monitoring SD-WAN.

Orchestrate Fortinet security devices and systems on-premise or in the cloud to streamline network provisioning, security policy updates, and change management.

Automate your time-intensive processes and accelerate workflows to offload NOC-SOC, reduce administrative tasks, and address talent shortages.

Optimize Visibility to the entire digital attack surface and awareness of increasing cyber threats from one centralized location, through accurate detection, automated correlation, and rapid response features.

Feature Highlights | Single Pane Automation and Orchestration

FortiManager provides insight into network traffic and threats through a single-pane-of-glass and offers enterprise-class features and sophisticated security management for unified, end-to-end protection to contain advanced threats. FortiManager also delivers the industry's best scalability to manage up to 100,000 Fortinet devices. FortiManager, coupled with the FortiAnalyzer family of centralized logging and reporting appliances, provides a comprehensive and powerful centralized management solution for your organization.

Central Management of Network Infrastructure

FortiManager provides a rich set of tools to help network admins centrally manage Security Fabric devices such as firewalls, switches, wireless wan extenders, access points, and VPNs from a single console, including capabilities to facilitate simplified deployments, centralized provisioning, and connection monitoring for VPNs, APs, SD-WAN, and more.

Configuration and Settings Management

Collectively configure device settings, use the new enhanced provisioning templates to assign firmware and policy packages during approval, and advance CLI templates for improved management of a large number of devices. Automatic device configuration backups with revision control and change auditing make daily administrative tasks easy.

Management Extensions

FortiManager's Management Extensions pane allows rapid expansion of the Single Pane to manage more Security Fabric products. The built-in engine runs containerized management extension applications (MEAs), pulled from FortiGuard. FortiManager's management extensions include modules to allow use of the following:

SD-WAN Orchestrator for all configuration, management, and monitoring of FortiGates on your SD-WAN network.

FortiPortal for cloud-based security and log management, allowing Managed Security Service Providers to delegate controlled access to device configuration and analytics.

FortiWLM to monitor, operate, and administer wireless networks on FortiGates that are managed by FortiManager.

FortiSigConverter to import network intrusion detection rules directly into FortiManager and convert them to Fortinet supported IPS signatures.

FortiAuthenticator for identity and access management, allowing admins to provide access to protected network assets, and track user activity and compliance with security policies.