Fortinet 146 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide
3. Click Update Now.
The web UI displays a message similar to the following:
Your update request has been sent. Your database will be updated in a few minutes. Please
check your update page for the status of the update.
4. After a few minutes, click the FortiGuard submenu to refresh the page, or go to System >
Status > Status and look at the FortiWeb Update Service row in the FortiGuard Information
widget.
If an update was available, the packages that were updated have new version numbers. If
you have enabled logging in:
•Log & Report > Log Config > Other Log Settings
•Log & Report > Log Config > Global Log Settings
when the FortiWeb appliance requests an update, the event is recorded in Log & Report >
Log Access > Event, such as these log message:
FortiWeb virus signature is already up-to-date
FortiWeb IP reputation signature update succeeded
If the FortiWeb appliance cannot successfully connect, it will record a log with a message
that varies by the cause of the error, such as:
FortiWeb is unauthorized.
Once the attack signature update is complete, FortiWeb will immediately begin to use them.
No reboot is required.
Uploading signature & geography-to-IP updates
You can manually update the geography-to-IP mappings and the attack, virus, and botnet
signatures that your FortiWeb appliance uses to detect attacks. Updating these ensures that
your FortiWeb appliance can detect recently discovered variations of these attacks, and that it
knows about the current statuses of all IP addresses on the public Internet.
After restoring the firmware of the FortiWeb appliance, you should install the most currently
available packages through FortiGuard. Restoring firmware installs the packages that were
current at the time the firmware image file was made: they may no longer be up-to-date.
To manually upload signatures
1. Download the file from the Fortinet Technical Support web site:
https://support.fortinet.com/
2. Log in to the web UI of the FortiWeb appliance as the admin administrator, or an
administrator account whose access profile contains Read and Write permissions in the
Maintenance category.
3. Go to System > Config > FortiGuard.
4. In the row next to the service whose signatures you want to upload, click the Update link.
A dialog appears that allows you to upload the file.
Alternatively, you can schedule automatic updates, or manually trigger the appliance to
immediately request an update. For details, see “Scheduling automatic signature updates” on
page 141 and “Manually initiating update requests” on page 144.
This does not, however, update geography-to-IP mappings, which still must be uploaded
manually.