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In our last blog post, we covered how you can install a FortiGate firewall on a VMware workstation, and we were able to build a lab around it successfully. In this blog, we will take a look at how you can install the FortiGate firewall on GNS3. After the installation, we will build a small lab to test our environment in our next blog.Can the FortiGate firewall be installed on GNS3?Steps to install FortiGate firewall in GNS3.1. Download the FortiGate KVM image.2. Download the empty hard disk file.3. Install the FortiGate on the GNS3.4. Set the password for the fortigate.5. Get the interface and IP details.Can the FortiGate firewall be installed on GNS3?The gns3 is a network emulation software; There are hundreds of network devices that gns3 supports for you to build the lab. The FortiGate firewall is among them. You could install the FortiGate firewall in gns3 either by using the existing VMware virtual machine that we deployed in the previous lab or get the KVM image from the FortiGate website and install it directly on the gns3vm or GNS3 remote server.For better performance, it is highly recommended that you install the FortiGate firewall on a remote server instead of gns3vm. The problem with gns3vm is that it does nested virtualization, meaning virtualization on top of virtualization. This will degrade the performance of your firewall.If you are not concerned about the performance, you could proceed with the FortiGate VM installation on GNS3VM itself. We will go through that as well.I have covered how you can install GNS3 on a remote server here, and you may check out the article here to learn more. If you don’t have gns3 installed as a remote server and want to use the VMware option, you may check the article here to learn more about how you can integrate different types of virtual machines into the GNS3.1. Download the FortiGate KVM image.One of the great things about FortiGate is that, unlike other vendors, its software size is about 73MB, I am not sure how they add tons of features to a small software package. Moreover, you don’t need to have a service agreement to download the software image, which is really good.To download the FortiGate image,Goto the link here.Sign in to the page, and if you don’t have the account, you may sign up for one and go back to the link I mentioned

DescriptionThis article describes the case when WiFi clients cannot connect to the SSIDs after a FortiAP firmware upgrade via FortiGate due to fsm-state 'RUN + Image Downloading'.ScopeFGT-100F v7.0.11, FAP-431F v7.2 build0318.SolutionSSH into FortiAP CLI and verify if the 'wcfg' output shows 'RUN + Image Downloading' as shown below:wcfgfsm-state : RUN + Image Downloading 5435392/40576666 664wtp-ip-addr : 10.0.X.1:5246 - 10.0.X.1:57720ac-ip-addr : 10.0.X.62:5246 - 10.0.X.62:5247 MULTICASTbase-mac : d4:76:a0:xx:xx:xx 2. This may occur when 'set image-download enable' on FortiGate as shown below.By default, the image-download option is enabled on FortiGate and it is enabled for FortiAP image download at join time:config global config wireless-controller global set image-download enable endConfig wireless controller global. 3. Temporarily disable 'set image-download enable' on FortiGate or on a specific FortiAP using the below commands on FortiGate CLI and reboot the affected AP:Image-download under Global:config global config wireless-controller global set image-download disable endImage-download under specific FortiAP:config wireless-controller wtp edit set image-download disableendTechnical Tip: Managed FortiAP Firmware upgrade from FortiGate. 4. Thereafter, verify 'wcfg' output on the FortiAP CLI should show fsm-state 'RUN' as shown below and then WiFi clients should connect fine to the SSIDs: fsm-state : RUN 92wtp-ip-addr : 10.0.X.1:5246 - 10.0.X.1:57720ac-ip-addr : 10.0.X.62:5246 - 10.0.X.62:5247 MULTICASTbase-mac : d4:76:a0:xx:xx:xx

Above and sign in.After you sign in, you will get multiple options to download the FortiGate software, click on VM images.You may choose the product as Fortigate on the left side and KVM as the platform.At the time of this writing, 7.0.3 is the latest version. Click on download on the new deployment option between the two download options, Upgrade and New deployment.2. Download the empty hard disk file.You can download the empty virtual hard disk file from here; you can also create the empty hard disk file within GNS3, which will be another topic for discussion.With both the FortiGate image and the virtual hard disk file download, you can install the FortiGate Virtual machine on gns3.3. Install the FortiGate on the GNS3.Open GNS3 on your machine. Here I am using GNS3 with a remote server, I will also show you where you need to choose GNS3VM, in case if that’s what you are using.Click on Browse security devices on the left side.Under security devices, click on New template.In the New template wizard,Choose Install an appliance from the GNS3 server and click on Next.In the appliance from the server window, you could search for FortiGate.When you start typing FortiGate, you will see the FortiGate appliance under the firewall, choose that and click on install.In Server type, choose to install the appliance on a remote server, select your remote server, and click on Next.Note: In case if you are using gns3VM, you may choose the install the appliance on the gns3 VM instead. That’s the only difference if you use GNS3VM.Choose default qemu binary and click on next.You will be asked to choose the version of your choice.In this lab, we will install version 7.0.3, and I don’t see that version list here. Hence click on Create new versionType the version number in the new version pop-up and click on ok.You will get another prompt to name the FortiGate primary virtual hard disk name.When you downloaded and extracted the file, the file name was fortios.qcow2. So, In the disk file name, type fortios.qcow2 and click on Ok.On the second virtual hard disk, leave default disk name ’empty30G.qcow2′ and click on Ok.You can see there are two files required for the FortiGate image to work.Both of them we already downloaded.Select each of them and click on import. Once it is imported, you are ready to install the software. Choose the version and

HA graceful upgrade to FortiOS 7.0.14 Use the following steps to upgrade a FortiGate 6000 or 7000 HA cluster with uninterruptible-upgrade enabled from FortiOS 6.4.14 build 1933 or FortiOS 7.0.13 build 0206 to FortiOS 7.0.14 Build 0226. Enabling uninterruptible-upgrade allows you to upgrade the firmware of an operating FortiGate 6000 or 7000 HA configuration with only minimal traffic interruption. During the upgrade, the secondary FortiGate upgrades first. Then a failover occurs and the newly upgraded FortiGate becomes the primary FortiGate and the firmware of the new secondary FortiGate upgrades. To perform a graceful upgrade of your FortiGate 6000 or 7000 from FortiOS 6.4.14 or 7.0.13 to FortiOS 7.0.14: Use the following command to enable uninterruptible-upgrade to support HA graceful upgrade: config system ha set uninterruptible-upgrade enable end Download FortiOS 7.0.14 firmware for FortiGate-6000 or 7000 from the FortiGate-6K7K 7.0.14 firmware image folder. Perform a normal upgrade of your HA cluster using the downloaded firmware image file. Verify that you have installed the correct firmware version. For example, for a FortiGate-6301F:get system statusVersion: FortiGate-6301F v7.0.14,build0226,240202 (GA.M)...

DescriptionThis article describes how to manually download firmware images from the Fortinet support portal and import them into FortiManager. For this demonstration, a FortiGate will be upgraded using a manually imported firmware image in FortiManager.ScopeFortiManager.SolutionWhen upgrading FortiGate via FortiManager via the toolbar option under More -> Firmware Upgrade, the user will be presented with a list of available firmware versions from FortiGuard. Once the preferred firmware version is selected, FortiManager will proceed to download the firmware image from the public FortiGuard servers before loading it into the FortiGate device for the upgrade process.As an alternative for FortiManager to download the firmware image from the public FortiGuard server (check the related article to see if FortiManager is properly connected to FortiGuard), the user can manually download the firmware image from the Fortinet support portal (support.fortinet.com/Download/FirmwareImages.aspx) and then import the downloaded firmware image into FortiManager by navigating to FortiGuard -> Firmware Images -> Local Images and select 'Import'.This benefits the user in terms of having the firmware image locally present in the FortiManager before the FortiGate device upgrade to reduce the time needed to have FortiManager download the firmware image from the public FortiGuard server during the upgrade process.Once the firmware image is downloaded from the support portal and imported into FortiManager as a local image, the user will be able to select the imported local image in FortiManager during the upgrade process.Note:Take the configuration backup from FortiGate and FortiManager before the firmware upgrade, just incase need to revert to the previous firmware version.Related documents:Technical Tip: Using Firmware Manager CLI and APICLI command to confirm if FMG is communicating with FDS serverTechnical Tip: Verifying FortiGuard connectivity on FortiManagerTechnical Tip: Upgrading FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer best practiceTechnical Tip: How to locate a FortiAnalyzer device image for upgrade/reinstallation in a support si...