The FortiManager™ system is the cornerstone of the Fortinet™ central management solution. FortiManager is an integrated management and monitoring platform that enables organisations of any size to easily manage Fortinet products. It minimises the administrative effort required to deploy, configure, monitor, and maintain the full range of network protection services provided by Fortinet products. The robust, hardened FortiManager appliance-based form factor eases deployment and provides increased security and reliability. FortiManager also integrates seamlessly with FortiAnalyzer™ to complete the Fortinet central management solution; providing centralised logging and reporting services for Fortinet security networks.
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Primary benefits of the FortiManager system include
- Provides a single management console for policy provisioning, as well as configuration revision control for all FortiGate and FortiClient products managed
- Site-wide visibility into security events and system events through the centralized monitoring features
- Improved control over subscription security updates and product updates through FortiManager's local updating features
- Improved efficiency with the integration of FortiAnalyzer centralized reporting
- Granular control over administration of Fortinet products with powerful role-based administration features
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The FortiManager-100 platform is ideal for small networks where localized or small scale management and monitoring is needed.
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- FortiManager-100 is a cost effective product delivering comprehensive management features for low-end FortiGate platforms (FG50-100A only) and FortiClient agents in the small office or remote branch office
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The FortiManager-400A is optimized for medium-sized enterprise customers, providing complete management, configuration and service update features for enterprise class FortiGate products. |
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- FortiManager-400A delivers dual gigabit Ethernet interfaces for high volume management traffic typical of the mid-sized enterprise environment (recommended for managing models FG50-800)
- Multiple administrative domains allows granular access control profiles for different device and/or management functions
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The FortiManager-3000 offers the ultimate levels of performance and reliability for enterprise and service provider networks where many Fortinet products are being managed. |
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- FortiManager-3000 offers the highest management capacity in the FortiManager family to support large scale deployments in the most demanding enterprise and service provider networks
- Improved performance for FortiGuard Web Filtering and FortiGuard Antispam security modules through the local storage of rating databases
- Reliable hardware platform with dual gigabit Ethernet interfaces and redundant power supplies
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Hardware specifications
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FortiManager
100 |
FortiManager
400A |
FortiManager
3000 |
FortiManager 3000B |
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Licensed devices |
10 |
200 |
500 |
4,000 |
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FortiClient
agents supported |
100 |
2,000 |
5,000 |
10,000 |