Author Archives: Manny Fernandez

I have been in the networking and security field for over 27 years. I started working for resellers back in the Novell days. I obtained my CNE, Master CNE, GroupWise CNE and later moved on to Microsoft with the MCSE. I have obtained numerous industry certifications from Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, RSA, Fortinet, Linux and other. I have worked on every firewall produced since the 1990's from Novell's Border Manager to IP Tables to FortiOS and everything in-between. I have either migrated to or from all of these platforms. It is my passion. I love what I do so I do not consider it work. Today I work for a manufacturer. By far, I enjoy this side much more so hope to continue doing so.

Extracting Registration Codes from PDF

Have you ever ordered a bunch of Fortinet gear or services and forgot to add FortiDeploy to you order and…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2025

Mass Create Objects in FortiGate with Python

Had a customer with over 200 static routes on their Cisco Nexus core switch.  We are deploying FortiGates as Internal…

By Manny Fernandez

April 28, 2025

Sublime Text Cheat Sheet

This is a work in progress, I will be updating it as I use it more and figure things out.…

By Manny Fernandez

October 21, 2024

Syncing Sublime Text for macOS with iCloud

I have been playing with the free version of Sublime Text for macOS for years.  I mainly have been using…

By Manny Fernandez

October 21, 2024

Updating My Preso Foo

In my day job, I am on a lot of Zoom, Teams, WebEx, and GoTo's.  I have tried different methods…

By Manny Fernandez

October 7, 2024

TCP Encpsulation of ESP Packets for VPN Tunnels

Have you ever worked with international customers that have governments that block IPsec traffic on the standard UDP 500 and…

By Manny Fernandez

July 30, 2024

Virtual Patching – Local-In management interface

Fortinet has a 1,000+ FortiGuard Labs team on cyber security professionals and because they ship twice as many devices than…

By Manny Fernandez

July 29, 2024

Deploying Linux Instances in AWS

Today, I started using my corporate sanctioned AWS account and deployed a Linux jump box.  I created a key-pair and…

By Manny Fernandez

July 25, 2024

My FortiGate FortiOS CLI Bible’ish

General Recon get system status # Gather helpful info version, SN, etc. Debug WebUI activity diag debug cli 8 diag…

By Manny Fernandez

May 27, 2024

Cisco Wildcard Objects in FortiOS

Recently, I was working with a customer that had a lot of Cisco wildcard addresses in access-lists they were using…

By Manny Fernandez

May 26, 2024

FortiOS Link-Monitor Gotcha

When using link-monitor on FortiGate, there is a gotcha you may run into.  Link-monitor will allow you to ping (…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2024

Multiple GUI Packet Captures at the same time

In FortiOS 7.4, Fortinet enhanced the ability to do multiple packet captures from the GUI.  This is very useful when…

By Manny Fernandez

May 7, 2024

My Gym Apple Automation with Shortcuts

Apple shortcuts have been an amazing addition to IOS.  I have started to use them more and more.  I am…

By Manny Fernandez

May 7, 2024

Converting FortiGate CLI packet debug to PCAP file on macOS

Years ago, when I started using FortiGates, I had a Windows VM where I could run some utilities and so…

By Manny Fernandez

May 7, 2024

FortiGate Troubleshooting Sessions

There are many options when troubleshooting in FortiGate firewalls.  I am a BIG sniffer guy.  Anyone that knows me or…

By Manny Fernandez

April 6, 2023

FortiGate IPS IP Exemption

Have you ever had an IPS signature that continues to trigger falsely?  In case you did not know, we call…

By Manny Fernandez

April 4, 2023

Direct Access through Split Tunnel VPN

Use case:  Customer has a Split Tunnel Enabled but wants to route certain FQDN or IP addresses via the local…

By Manny Fernandez

April 3, 2023

Copy to Clipboard macOS Shortcut

I have hesitated to play with macOS Shortcuts in the past because I was not sure how serious Apple was…

By Manny Fernandez

March 28, 2023

Security Profile Groups

Have you ever configured a bunch of policies that use the same security profiles in FortiGate but suffer from click…

By Manny Fernandez

March 26, 2023

Fortinet SD WAN Packet Duplication

Fortinet dominates the SD WAN space.  I have worked with many SD WAN solutions as well as WAN OP solutions. …

By Manny Fernandez

March 23, 2023

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