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The widgets displayed in the prodcut details vary by product.

For example, FortiAnalyzer VM displays a link to upgrade a license or download a license file.

A green icon indicates the entitlement is active, a yellow icon indicates the entitlement is about to expire, and a red icon indicates the entitlement has expired.

Click the Get the License File link download a license file.

The malware statistics are used to improve various aspects of FortiGate malware protection.

For example, antivirus data allows FortiGuard to determine what viruses are currently active.

Launch the simulation and connect to the console port via telnet.

During this time the FortiGate VM operates in evaluation mode.

Before using the FortiGate VM you must enter the license file that you downloaded from the Customer Service Support website upon registration.

To upload the FortiGate VM licence file: In the Evaluation License dialog box, select Enter License.

License upload page: Select Upload and locate the license file (.

The VM registration status appears as valid in the License Information widget once the license has been validated by the FortiGuard Distribution Network (FDN) or FortiManager for closed networks.

Modern browsers can have an issue with allowing connecting to a FortiGate if the encryption on the device is too low.

Adjusting browser settings does not normally mitigate the issue.

If this happens, Admins must use a FTPTFTP server to apply the license.

CLI You can also upload the license file via the CLI using the following CLI command: execute restore vmlicense ftp tftp:ftp port Example: The following is an example output when using a tftp server to install license.

Rebooting firewall.

Fortigate File How To Add The

Im going to show you how to add the FortiGate virtual appliance to VIRL.

First of all you will need the FortiGate Virtual Machine from We will be using the KVM image provided by Fortinet, other versions are available i.e.

ESXi, Hyper-V, etc so make you get the right one.

The trial period begins the first time you start FortiGate VM.

After the trial license expires, functionality is disabled until you upload a license file.

Before you can upload the KVM image into VIRL we need to create a new custom Subtype.

A custom Subtype allows you define what resources your image will use for example what Management, Data Interfaces, RAM, and CPU we allocate.

We will be basing ours on the Generic Subtype To create a new custom Subtype, login to VIRL User Workspace Management using your browser Select Subtypes from the left-hand menu.

Click the dropdown at the end of the generic row and click the Specialize button.

Name of new subtype: FORTiOS Description of plugin: Fortinet Firewall Name of management interface: port1 Pattern for data interface names: port0 First data interface number: 2 Max count of data interfaces: 7 Number of serial interfaces: 1 Protocol for network CLI: telnet Make VNC access available: Enable this option Show subtype on GUI palette: Enable this option Virtual interface model: virtio Main disk bus model: virtio RAM (MB) allocated per node: 1024 Number of CPUs allocated per node: 1 Click Create Now we have created our custom subtype we can configure the image.

Set the image subtype and release version and either upload the image through the browser or from file on server, for the file on server method you must have already upload the fortios.qcow2 image.

Click Create. You should now have the FORTiOS listed under images as below.

Select File Preference Node Subtypes then click Fetch from Server.

Create a new topology and add the FORTiOS device from the palette.

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