Monthly Archives: April 2020

Syslog Filtering on FortiGate Firewall & Syslog-NG

We recommend sending FortiGate logs to a FortiAnalyzer as it produces great reports and great, usable information.  However sometimes, you…

By Manny Fernandez

April 27, 2020

2-Factor Auth Using Email on FortiGate

Putting together a presentation I am giving to some customers and decided I wanted to put together an article with…

By Manny Fernandez

April 26, 2020

IPSec Remote Access VPN Naming Limitations on FortiGate

There is a 15 character limit on the interface names in FortiOS.  When using IPSec for remote access VPNs, it…

By Manny Fernandez

April 25, 2020

Troubleshooting FortClient VPN Connectivity Issues with FortiGate

As more and more users are using remote access VPNs and probably using FortiClient, I wanted to share the errors…

By Manny Fernandez

April 23, 2020

Deploying FortiAnalyzer in AWS

I have been playing with AWS a lot since the pandemic.  I wrote another article about adding some VIPs using…

By Manny Fernandez

April 22, 2020

Restricting YouTube to Specific Channels on FortiGate Firewalls

Please note that YouTube is changing the way it categorizes content to comply with COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act). …

By Manny Fernandez

April 20, 2020

Browser Wars on my Mac

I run the following browser on my MacBook Pro Safari (Obviously) Firefox Chrome Brave Opera Microsoft Edge Tor I wanted…

By Manny Fernandez

April 18, 2020

Setting Up FortiVoice Softphones for Desktop and Mobile

Fortinet has a fantastic voice solution.  It is the FortiVoice Enterprise or FVE.  I have many customers that are running…

By Manny Fernandez

April 16, 2020

Running Post VPN Login Script

I have been getting asked this question since this coronavirus thing started.  I decided I would address it with an…

By Manny Fernandez

April 7, 2020

Deploying Grafana and Monitoring your AWS environment

Today I deployed Grafana in my lab environment.  I am hoping to to get this pulling from FortiAnalyzer in the…

By Manny Fernandez

April 1, 2020

Setting Static IP Address on an Ubuntu Server

In preparation for another article I am writing, I deployed an Ubuntu Server 18.04.  By default, it boots with DHCP. …

By Manny Fernandez

April 1, 2020

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