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Tac Report
(2025-04-15) To generate a Tac report: # exec tac report Alternatively, go to System Settings F...
Five User Experience Principles
Five User Experience Principles Keep it simple. But not simpler. Keep scalability in mind. End u...
Hardware or Software RAID?
The question is usually framed as Is Hardware RAID better than software RAID? Well actually it's ...
Five Apes In A Cage
Put five apes in a cage. In the middle of a cage is a set of steps, and at the top of the steps i...
Email Inbox Management, 2011
(10 October 2011) Interesting results from an IBM study comparing the effectiveness of folder-fil...
Email Inbox Management, 2008
(29 January 2008) I watched the Google Talk video about the Inbox Zero concept. It is long (about...
Greylisting's Effect
(19 March 2012) Last year when I rebuilt my server I had the opportunity to see specifically what...
Debug sdwan
(2025-03-31) # di sys sdwan member Member. service ...
Enable the SSLVPN GUI Menus
(2025-03-31) (..or, we don't want you using this but if you insist:) Enable the GUI menus: config...
Export Logs From Fortigate Disk Over FTP
(2025-03-18) # execute backup disk alllogs ftp <IP_address> <username> <password> <compressed | u...
Check Geo-IP Region For A Specific IP
(2025-01-31) FGVM # di geoip ip2c 147.45.47.173 147.45.47.173 - Netherlands, is not anycast ip F...
Looking at logs via CLI
(2024-11-28) fw # exec log filter category Category. device Device to ...
IPsec MTU Adjustments
MTU can be adjusted via three ways: Adjusting the MTU of the physical interface where the IPsec...
IPsec MTU Varies By Encryption Algorythm
(2024-11-13) Stronger encryption algorithms equals to lower MTU values. For example, the FortiGat...
Link Monitor
(2023-11-15) Example Link Monitor Configuration config system link-monitor edit "VLAN601" set src...
CLI Policy Lookup
(2024-02-06) Problem CLI way to duplicate the "policy lookup" tool Solution diagnose firewall ipr...
VPN Debug
(2018-08-02) Problem Site to site VPN not coming up. Solution it depends what you would like to t...
Simple Commands
(2013-11-13) Ping # exec ping $TARGET Options execute ping-options view-settings execute ping-o...
FortiOS LLDP
(2019-01-22) Solution So apparently FortiGates can do LLDP, you just have to turn it on. config s...
Fortimanager: List All Registered Firewalls
(2025-02-19) Command Does diag dvm device list list all devices diag dvm device list nam...