Category Archives: All

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

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

Stream Deck for the SE

My daily job consists of Zoom after Zoom after Zoom followed by lunch with customers and happy hours with more…

By Manny Fernandez

February 27, 2022

Removing Parallels VM Apps from macOS Spotlight

I use Parallels on my MacBook Pro, mostly to run Visio and some other WinDoze apps.  However sometimes when I…

By Manny Fernandez

February 16, 2022

Quick Tip – Controlling Source Interface Traffic

In version 7.x of FortiOS there is now a GUI based option that can allow you to choose what interface…

By Manny Fernandez

October 10, 2021

Quick Tip – When your FortiGate is stuck in ExStart when using OSPF

I wrote an article a while back regarding OSPF.  Here is a quick tip I ran into today and wanted…

By Manny Fernandez

October 5, 2021

Removing “Launch FortiClient” from FortiGate Web Portal VPN

I had a customer that had configured a Web Portal VPN and he did not want anyone using FortiClient since…

By Manny Fernandez

October 4, 2021

Quick-Tip – Checking your Fortigate DB versions

By default, the FortiGate will reach out to FortiGuard Labs every 2 hours.  It will upgrade the various DB automatically. …

By Manny Fernandez

September 30, 2021

Converting Certificates using OpenSSL

During the course of most security administrator's life, you will inevitably need to convert certificates from certain formats to other…

By Manny Fernandez

September 30, 2021

Using PhoneInfoga to research phone numbers

Had a friend come to me and let me know that someone was calling his house about some roofing deals. …

By Manny Fernandez

August 14, 2021

Categories

Recent posts

  • Have you ever ordered a bunch of Fortinet gear... Full Story

  • Had a customer with over 200 static routes on... Full Story

  • This is a work in progress, I will be... Full Story