Fortinet FortiGate Infrastructure

Networking and security professionals who are involved in the design, implementation and administration of a network infrastructure using FortiGate appliances. This includes network managers, administrators, installers, sales engineers, systems engineers, professional services engineers (presales and post sales) and technical support professionals.

Anyone planning on taking the FortiGate Infrastructure course is strongly recommended to complete the FortiGate Security course before this course.

After completing this course you should be able to:

• Analyze a FortiGate route table
• Route packets using policy-based and static routes for multipath and load -balanced deployments
• Configure SD-WAN to load balance traffic between multiple WAN links effectively
• Inspect traffic transparently, forwarding as a Layer 2 device
• Divide FortiGate into two or more virtual devices, each operating as an independent FortiGate, by configuring virtual domains (VDOMs)
• Establish an IPsec VPN tunnel between two FortiGate devices
• Implement a meshed or partially redundant VPN
• Diagnose failed IKE exchanges
• Offer Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) access to network services, integrated with Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
• Deploy FortiGate devices as an HA cluster for fault tolerance and high performance
• Deploy implicit and explicit proxy with firewall policies,authentication, and caching
• Diagnose and correct common problems

Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:

• Knowledge of OSI Layers
• Knowledge of Firewall concepts in an IPv4 network
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of FortiGate as presented in the FortiGate Security course
• This course assumes knowledge of basic FortiGate fundamentals. Participants should have a thorough understanding of all the topics covered in the FortiGate Security course before attending the FortiGate Infrastructure course.