_System Settings_Reset admin password

To get the system serial number

# get system status
To change the host name, System Time, Password Policy ..
System, Settings, .
To confiure the fortigate with an NTP server
FGT # config system ntp
To Enable/disable the FortiGate system time by synchronizing with an NTP Server.
FGT (ntp) # set ntpsync enable
To Change type
FGT (ntp) # set type custom
Types are: fortiguard or custom
FGT (ntp) # set syncinterval (in Minutes)
FGT (ntp) # config ntpserver
FGT (ntpserver) # edit
FGT ( ) # set server -----> NTP server IP
FGT ( ) # set ntpv disable
FGT ( ) # next
FGT (ntpserver) # end
Set Source IP address for communication to the NTP server.
FGT (ntp) # set source-ip
FGT (ntp) # end
FGT # get system ntp

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Fortigate Inspection Modes.
Proxy-based
Proxy inspection involves buffering traffic and examining it as a whole before determining an action.
The process of having the whole of the data to analyze allows for the examination of more points of data than the flow-based method.
Gives you a better security. (will always be better)
Flow-based
As each packet of the traffic arrives it is processed and forwarded without waiting for the complete file or web page.
This inspection method examines the file as it passes through the FortiGate unit without any buffering.
Gives you a better performance.

NGFW Modes:
Profile-based mode.
- Admin must create an application or web profile, then link it to the policy.
- This is the traditional mode where you create a profile (antivirus, web filter, and so on) and then apply the profile to a policy.
Policy-based mode.
- You allow applications and URL categories to be used directly in security policies, without requiring web filter or application control
profiles.
- You can add applications and web filtering categories directly to a policy without having to first create and configure Application
Control or Web Filtering profiles.
# config system settings
# set ngfw-mode {profile-based | policy-based}
# end
To change the default admin password.
System, Administrators,

Reset admin lost password.

Firewalls Page
Reset admin lost password.
First, Shutdown the firewall
execute shutdown
Login to the console within sec with the username "maintainer" and the password "bcpbdeviceserial"
# config system admin
# edit admin
# set password the-password
# end
# exit
# after login with new password
#execute reboot
To reset the firewall to factory default config
# execute factoryreset

Firewalls Page