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Tac Report

FortiOS v7.4.x

(2025-04-15) To generate a Tac report: # exec tac report Alternatively, go to System Settings F...

Updated 5 days ago by david

Five User Experience Principles

War Stories

Five User Experience Principles Keep it simple. But not simpler. Keep scalability in mind. End u...

Updated 1 week ago by david

Hardware or Software RAID?

War Stories

The question is usually framed as Is Hardware RAID better than software RAID? Well actually it's ...

Updated 1 week ago by david

Five Apes In A Cage

War Stories

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...

Updated 1 week ago by david

Email Inbox Management, 2011

War Stories

(10 October 2011) Interesting results from an IBM study comparing the effectiveness of folder-fil...

Updated 1 week ago by david

Email Inbox Management, 2008

War Stories

(29 January 2008) I watched the Google Talk video about the Inbox Zero concept. It is long (about...

Updated 1 week ago by david

Greylisting's Effect

War Stories

(19 March 2012) Last year when I rebuilt my server I had the opportunity to see specifically what...

Updated 1 week ago by david

Debug sdwan

FortiOS v7.0.x

(2025-03-31) # di sys sdwan member Member. service ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

Enable the SSLVPN GUI Menus

FortiOS v7.4.x

(2025-03-31) (..or, we don't want you using this but if you insist:) Enable the GUI menus: config...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

Export Logs From Fortigate Disk Over FTP

FortiOS v7.0.x

(2025-03-18) # execute backup disk alllogs ftp <IP_address> <username> <password> <compressed | u...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

Check Geo-IP Region For A Specific IP

FortiOS v7.0.x

(2025-01-31) FGVM # di geoip ip2c 147.45.47.173 147.45.47.173 - Netherlands, is not anycast ip F...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

Looking at logs via CLI

FortiOS v7.0.x

(2024-11-28) fw # exec log filter category Category. device Device to ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

IPsec MTU Adjustments

FortiOS v7.0.x

MTU can be adjusted via three ways: Adjusting the MTU of the physical interface where the IPsec...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

IPsec MTU Varies By Encryption Algorythm

FortiOS v7.0.x

(2024-11-13) Stronger encryption algorithms equals to lower MTU values. For example, the FortiGat...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

Link Monitor

FortiOS v7.0.x

(2023-11-15) Example Link Monitor Configuration config system link-monitor edit "VLAN601" set src...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

CLI Policy Lookup

FortiOS v7.0.x

(2024-02-06) Problem CLI way to duplicate the "policy lookup" tool Solution diagnose firewall ipr...

Updated 2 weeks ago by david

VPN Debug

FortiOS v6.0.x

(2018-08-02) Problem Site to site VPN not coming up. Solution it depends what you would like to t...

Updated 1 month ago by david

Simple Commands

FortiOS v5.0.x

(2013-11-13) Ping # exec ping $TARGET Options execute ping-options view-settings execute ping-o...

Updated 1 month ago by david

FortiOS LLDP

FortiOS v5.6.x

(2019-01-22) Solution So apparently FortiGates can do LLDP, you just have to turn it on. config s...

Updated 2 months ago by david

Fortimanager: List All Registered Firewalls

FortiOS v7.4.x

(2025-02-19) Command Does diag dvm device list list all devices diag dvm device list nam...

Updated 2 months ago by david