{"id":5220,"date":"2021-07-20T03:10:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2021-12-14T01:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:42:48","slug":"how-to-make-changes-safely-on-fortinet-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/how-to-make-changes-safely-on-fortinet-router","title":{"rendered":"How to make changes safely on Fortinet Router"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This enables you to make a change , and if it doesn&#8217;t work , the config gets rolled back<\/p><pre>config system global<br \/>set cfg-save revert<br \/>set cfg-revert-timeout 300<br \/>end<br \/><br \/>(Press Enter)<\/pre><p>**Make Change**<\/p><p>If not issue then , change back<\/p><pre>config system global<br \/>set cfg-save auto<br \/>end<\/pre><p><br \/>(Press Enter)<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In the new firmware, a new option added to GUI for saving configuration, previously this was in CLI only.<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5448  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67ca1d5d.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67ca1d5d.png 793w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67ca1d5d-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67ca1d5d-768x202.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Default is automatic, changes apply as made.<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Workspace, changes do not commit until saved manually. Workspace + Revert upon timeout, FortiGate reboots and changes revert if not committed within the configured number of seconds.\u00a0<b>Very useful for remote changes that might cause loss of connectivity.<\/b><\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"818\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5449  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67cf3566.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67cf3566.png 818w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67cf3566-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67cf3566-768x207.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Adds a new option to save in GUI top right corner<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5447  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67c7ac1e.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67c7ac1e.png 898w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67c7ac1e-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_61b7f67c7ac1e-768x98.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This enables you to make a change , and if it doesn&#8217;t work , the config gets rolled backconfig system globalset cfg-save revertset cfg-revert-timeout 300end(Press Enter)**Make Change**If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3552,737,1251,1106,3550,3551,2961,3677],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-auto","tag-config","tag-fortigate","tag-restore","tag-revert","tag-rollback","tag-router","tag-save"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5451,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}