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.

Binding to LDAP with Minimum Access

Most of the documentation out there will tell you to configure a Domain Admin user to perform LDAP authentication.  When I…

By Manny Fernandez

May 3, 2020

Beware of MacBook Pro 16″ and Kernel Panic

Ahhh, the woes of Apple.  I will vent by saying that anything that goes to Apple's "Engineering" group is as…

By Manny Fernandez

May 2, 2020
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Switching back to Bash on new MacBook Pro

So I made the plunge during this coronavirus quarantine and bought the new 2020 MBP with 64GB of RAM.  Mostly…

By Manny Fernandez

May 1, 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

How I use Wireshark in My Daily Grind

When I am working with someone on a GTM or a Zoom type solution and I ask, "Do you have…

By Manny Fernandez

March 31, 2020

Surviving Working from Home

I have been working from home for years.  I find it to be super rewarding and because of my work…

By Manny Fernandez

March 29, 2020

macOS 10.15.4 Broke my FortiClient

When I installed the macOS 10.15.4, my FortiClient was failing when connecting to any one of my customer's VPNs.  I…

By Manny Fernandez

March 29, 2020

Adding Elastic IPs to AWS FortiGate to be used as VIPs

Lately I have been doing some AWS.  I am looking to get certified in the short-term.  I was struggling with…

By Manny Fernandez

March 25, 2020

Create Custom Install Packages for FortiClient

When you are deploying FortiClient without EMS and you want to create an installation package with pre-configured VPN connections, here…

By Manny Fernandez

March 24, 2020

FortiExtender on FortiCloud

  I recently set up a FortiExtender in my lab but I didn't use my FortiGate as the controller/manager. You…

By Manny Fernandez

March 23, 2020

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