Microsoft NPS logs not showing in Event Viewer?
One of the best troubleshooting steps for Radius/NPS is to look in the event viewer to see why you are having failures. This shows if the server is actively denying the user login attempts due to...
View ArticleEnable Open wifi authentication in Fortios 7.0+
I was creating an SSID from within the Fortigate to manged Fortiaps and noticed I could not change the security to “Open”. The only options were security options, and Captive-Portal. I was like, where...
View ArticleFortinet LDAP/RADIUS Source address with SD-WAN setup
I found this a neat tidbit of knowledge that I thought I should share. Created a Fortinet SDWAN setup with many sites – works awesome. Fortinet’s SDWAN is simple, but very effective with some really...
View ArticleEnabling Syslog for Cisco 9800 Controller and APs
Below details how to enable Syslogging for both the controller and APs. In the controller, it seems its CLI only (If not, please comment how to do from GUI). First lets set the Controller to send...
View ArticleFortigate – Separate IP pools out of multiple SDWAN Interfaces
Now that I setup SD-WAN interfaces in Fortigate for almost any deployment – due to future proofing. I have struggled with how to make internal resources that need to nat out publicly from a certain IP...
View ArticleFortinet 7.2.12 and 7.6.4 Azure SAML signing issue
In the release notes of 7.2.12 and 7.6.4 you will see something like this: After upgrading you will not be able to connect to the IDP until you fix this. This blog entry will show how to modify the...
View ArticleHow to get Fiber light levels from Fortiswitch
I needed to track down the power of one of our fiber ports – and had a hard time finding how through google-foo. Decided to document it. I did find this link if it helps anyone:...
View ArticleCheck current bandwidth of Fortiswitch port
One very cool setting through CLI is to get the actual live bandwidth of the a port. You can do this to check uplink status, or just make sure you are not over saturating things. You can do this by...
View ArticleChanging order of Fortiswitch in GUI
I recently added a switch later in the stack, and wanted to make sure the switches were numbered the same as the physical order in the rack. I found no way to do this in the GUI – probably is, but the...
View ArticleMinimum Basic Rate on Fortiwifi
To set the BSS Min rate on Fortigate controlled APs, lets say to min of 12, you can do the following on both 2.4/5: config wireless-controller vapedit Test-SSIDset rates-11a 12-basic 18 24 36 48 54set...
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