Fortinet FortiGate 100A, Administration Manual

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Contents
FortiGate-100A Administration Guide 01-28007-0068-20041203
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Table of Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................... 13
About FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls................................................................................... 13
Antivirus protection ....................................................................................................... 14
Web content filtering ..................................................................................................... 14
Spam filtering ................................................................................................................ 15
Firewall.......................................................................................................................... 15
VLANs and virtual domains........................................................................................... 16
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)................................................................................ 17
VPN............................................................................................................................... 17
High availability ............................................................................................................. 18
Secure installation, configuration, and management .................................................... 18
Document conventions ..................................................................................................... 19
FortiGate documentation .................................................................................................. 21
Fortinet Knowledge Center ........................................................................................... 21
Comments on Fortinet technical documentation........................................................... 21
Related documentation ..................................................................................................... 22
FortiManager documentation ........................................................................................ 22
FortiClient documentation ............................................................................................. 22
FortiMail documentation................................................................................................ 22
FortiLog documentation ................................................................................................ 23
Customer service and technical support........................................................................... 23
System status....................................................................................................... 25
Console access................................................................................................................. 25
Status................................................................................................................................ 26
Viewing system status .................................................................................................. 26
Changing unit information ............................................................................................. 29
Session list........................................................................................................................ 32
Changing the FortiGate firmware...................................................................................... 33
Upgrading to a new firmware version ........................................................................... 33
Reverting to a previous firmware version...................................................................... 35
Installing firmware images from a system reboot using the CLI ................................... 38
Testing a new firmware image before installing it ......................................................... 41
Installing and using a backup firmware image .............................................................. 43
System network ................................................................................................... 47
Interface ............................................................................................................................ 47
Interface settings........................................................................................................... 48
Configuring interfaces ................................................................................................... 53
Zone.................................................................................................................................. 58
Zone settings ................................................................................................................ 58