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Administrators, profiles, backups and restore

Give a helpdesk team safe, read-only access with its own profile and trusted hosts, enforce a password policy and lockout, then back up the configuration to a TFTP server in plain and encrypted form and plan a restore and a firmware upgrade.

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In your workspace: Shared, then FortiGate NSE 4 guided labs, then 02 - Administrators profiles backups and restore

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Level
Beginner
Time
About 50 minutes
Nodes need
4 vCPU, 6,144 MB
Smallest plan
Lite

The scenario

Harbourside's FortiGate is live, and only you know the admin password, which auditors flagged. The helpdesk needs to look at the firewall to answer users' questions, but must not change anything, and only from the office LAN. The auditors also want strong admin passwords, a lockout after failed logins, and a tested backup on the server network before anyone touches the firmware.

DeviceInterfaceAddressConnects to
FGT1port1 (ISP-A)203.0.113.1/24INET (ISP gateway .254)
FGT1port2 (LAN)10.1.10.1/24PC1 10.1.10.10
FGT1port3 (SERVERS)10.1.30.1/24SRV1 10.1.30.10 (TFTP server, files in /srv/tftp)

Topology: FGT1 in the middle; PC1 on the LAN, SRV1 on the server network, INET upstream.

What you’ll practise

  • Explain administrator profiles and build a read-only profile
  • Create an administrator restricted to trusted hosts
  • Enforce an administrator password policy and a login lockout
  • Back up the configuration to TFTP, plain and encrypted, and read what a backup contains
  • Describe the restore and firmware-upgrade procedures and their risks

The tasks

  1. Start the lab
  2. A read-only administrator profile
  3. A helpdesk administrator with trusted hosts
  4. Password policy and lockout
  5. Back up the configuration
  6. Plan a restore and a firmware upgrade (walk-through)

The Lab Tasks pane has the scenario, these tasks, the checks to run, hints and the full solution.

Topology and devices

The network as it opens in EVE-NG, drawn from the lab’s own canvas, and the image each node runs.

Topology of Administrators profiles backups and restore4 nodes, 3 links. Every link is listed as text below the diagram.FGT1INETPC1SRV1port1eth0port2eth0port3eth0
4 nodes, with the interface names each link uses.
Every link, as text
  • FGT1 port1 to INET eth0
  • FGT1 port2 to PC1 eth0
  • FGT1 port3 to SRV1 eth0
Nodes in Administrators, profiles, backups and restore, with the image each runs and the vCPU and RAM it’s set to
NodeDeviceImage in Add NodeSet to
FGT1Fortinet FortiGatefortinet-FGT-v7.0.17.M-build06821 vCPU, 2,048 MB
INETEVE-NG GUI server (Docker)eve-gui-server:latest1 vCPU, 1,024 MB
PC1EVE-NG GUI server (Docker)eve-gui-server:latest1 vCPU, 2,048 MB
SRV1EVE-NG GUI server (Docker)eve-gui-server:latest1 vCPU, 1,024 MB

How to open this lab

  1. Sign in to your workspace at lab.cloudlabbox.com.

  2. In File Manager, open Shared, then the folder FortiGate NSE 4 guided labs.

  3. Open 02 - Administrators profiles backups and restore and start its nodes, then open Lab Tasks for the scenario and the steps.

The lab is read-only. You can start the nodes and configure the devices, but changes to the topology can’t be saved. To change it, rebuild it in your own folder.

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