{"id":4116,"date":"2019-05-10T04:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T04:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:55:06","slug":"fortigate-setup-best-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/fortigate-setup-best-practice","title":{"rendered":"Fortigate Setup Best Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plasmaticsun.com\/blog\/fortigate-best-practices-baseline\">Fortigate best practices baseline \u2014 Plasmatic Sun<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/KevinGuenay\/fortigate-baseline\/blob\/main\/baseline.md#configure-and-use-threat-feeds-for-firewall-and-local-in-policies\">fortigate-baseline\/baseline.md at main \u00b7 KevinGuenay\/fortigate-baseline \u00b7 GitHub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>config system global<\/strong><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; set admin-telnet disable<br>end<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">adding extended-log for traffic logs. This will enable traffic logs for errors such as missing reverse path (RPF), which greatly helps troubleshooting without having to resort to debug commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In FortiOS &lt; 7.4 it was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">config log setting\n    set log-invalid-packet enable\nend<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in 7.4 and newer it was renamed to this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">config log setting\n    set extended-log enable\nend<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">V7 &#8211; Set Memory HA Failover &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fortinet.com\/document\/fortigate\/7.0.0\/new-features\/823734\/ha-failover-due-to-memory-utilization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Features | FortiGate \/ FortiOS 7.0.0 | Fortinet Documentation Library<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add Interface Bandwidth of Wan port to Dashboard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enable device detection on LAN interfaces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proxy based always<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link Monitors for HA Links&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remove Hardware Switch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOS Policies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enable Full Logging on every Policu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">System-&gt;Settings -&gt; Enable SNMP for Monitoring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there is an IPSec tunnel, there should be a higher distance blackhole route for all remote prefixes. 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