{"id":8799,"date":"2025-04-25T23:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2025-04-26T02:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:50:23","slug":"how-to-update-fortigate-config-via-fortimanager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/how-to-update-fortigate-config-via-fortimanager","title":{"rendered":"How to Update Fortigate Config Via FortiManager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can run a retrieve config on the device <a href=\"https:\/\/community.fortinet.com\/t5\/FortiManager\/Troubleshooting-Tip-FortiGate-is-Out-of-sync-in-the-Device\/ta-p\/192888\">https:\/\/community.fortinet.com\/t5\/FortiManager\/Troubleshooting-Tip-FortiGate-is-Out-of-sync-in-the-Device\/ta-p\/192888<\/a><br><br>To clear the pending changes from the FortiManager<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make the change in the FortiManager and see the Config Status change to Modified<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"177\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-29.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8801 img-responsive\" style=\"width:178px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose Install Wizard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8802 img-responsive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-30.png 646w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-30-300x35.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Select the Device that needs updating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get to Install Preparation Screen and Click <strong>Install Preview<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If its trying to Purge VPN&#8217;s make sure you do this :  ( Just clear out the comments from Phase1\\Phase 2 and Static Routes ) <a href=\"https:\/\/community.fortinet.com\/t5\/FortiManager\/Technical-Tip-Remove-comment-Created-by-IPSec-Template-from-VPN\/ta-p\/331346\">https:\/\/community.fortinet.com\/t5\/FortiManager\/Technical-Tip-Remove-comment-Created-by-IPSec-Template-from-VPN\/ta-p\/331346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will show your changes that are being made to the device as other changes might have been made<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click Install only when you are ready to push the updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can run a retrieve config on the device https:\/\/community.fortinet.com\/t5\/FortiManager\/Troubleshooting-Tip-FortiGate-is-Out-of-sync-in-the-Device\/ta-p\/192888To clear the pending changes from the FortiManager Make the change in the FortiManager and see the Config [&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":[],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","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=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8809,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}