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Interface Statistics

Posted on 05/08/2011 by Googs

diag hardware deviceinfo nic “interface name”

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Reset Fortigate Admin Password

Posted on 03/08/2011 by Googs

Connect a console cable then reboot the unit. As soon as th login promt appears use the username “maintainer” and bcpbFGTxxxxxxxxxxxxx as the password where the “xxxxxxxxxxxxx” is the case sensitive serial number of the unit

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Remotely view and disconnect RDP sessions

Posted on 02/08/2011 by Googs

When encountering error ““You exceeded the allowed connection count”” when trying to login to a server use the following commands to view the active sessions and also to end them

To view : qwinsta /server:yourservername

 

To end : rwinsta ID /server:yourservername

 

or

 

query session /server:SERVER2

reset session [ID] /server:servername

(better example here)

 

  ask a doctor free .

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Linux networking

Posted on 28/07/2011 by Googs

Add default gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network

i.e. “GATEWAY=1.1.1.1”

Restart the neowkring service using

/etc/init.d/network restart

 

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Basic Fortigate troubleshooting commands

Posted on 23/07/2011 by Googs

http://itsecworks.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/fortigate-basic-troubleshooting-commands/

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Windows static route

Posted on 22/07/2011 by Googs

route [-f] [-p] [Command [Destination] [mask Netmask] [Gateway] [metric Metric]] [if Interface]]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/route.mspx?mfr=true

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Fortigate Radius Authentication issue

Posted on 10/07/2011 by Googs

While attempting to configure a Fortigate 80c to use an external radius server it encountered errors in that every authentication request that went through did not succeed.

 

It was discovered that there is a limit on the number of characters allowed in the secret for the Primary server.

 

 

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Fortigate open port 541

Posted on 10/07/2011 by Googs

A portscan of the wan side of a Fortigate device whill show that port 541 is open. This port is used for Fortimanager and Fortiguard Server. If you do not use either of these services the port can be closed using the following:

 

config system central-management

set status disable

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