FortinetFortinet 4 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide
Planning the network topology.............................................................................. 61
How to choose the operation mode................................................................ 61
Supported features in each operation mode............................................. 62
Matching topology with operation mode & HA mode................................ 63
Topology for reverse proxy mode.................................................................... 63
Topology for either of the transparent modes................................................. 65
Topology for offline protection mode .............................................................. 67
Topologies for high availability (HA) clustering................................................ 68
Connecting to the web UI or CLI........................................................................... 71
Connecting to the web UI................................................................................ 72
Connecting to the CLI...................................................................................... 74
Updating the firmware........................................................................................... 77
Testing new firmware before installing it ......................................................... 77
Installing firmware............................................................................................ 79
Updating firmware on an HA pair............................................................... 83
Installing alternate firmware............................................................................. 84
Booting from the alternate partition........................................................... 87
Changing the “admin” account password............................................................. 90
Setting the system time & date.............................................................................. 91
Setting the operation mode................................................................................... 94
Configuring a high availability (HA) FortiWeb cluster............................................. 97
Replicating the configuration without FortiWeb HA (external HA)................. 107
Configuring the network settings......................................................................... 111
Network interface or bridge?......................................................................... 111
Configuring the network interfaces.......................................................... 113
Adding VLAN subinterfaces............................................................... 117
Link aggregation ...................................................................................... 120
Configuring a bridge (V-zone).................................................................. 122
Adding a gateway.......................................................................................... 125
Configuring DNS settings .............................................................................. 130
Connecting to FortiGuard services...................................................................... 134
Choosing the virus signature database & decompression buffer.................. 138
Accessing FortiGuard via a web proxy.......................................................... 140
How often does Fortinet provide FortiGuard updates for FortiWeb?............ 140
Scheduling automatic signature updates...................................................... 141
Manually initiating update requests............................................................... 144
Uploading signature & geography-to-IP updates.......................................... 146
Configuring basic policies ................................................................................... 148
Example 1: Configuring a policy for HTTP via auto-learning......................... 148
Example 2: Configuring a policy for HTTPS .................................................. 149
Example 3: Configuring a policy for load balancing...................................... 150