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FortiManager centralized management appliances deliver the essential tools necessary to effectively manage the smallest to the largest Fortinet-based security infrastructures. Whether deploying a few or thousands of new devices or agents, distributing updates or installing security policies across managed assets, FortiManager appliances simplify tasks commonly associated with managing FortiGate devices and FortiClient agents. Device discovery, group management, auditing facilities and the ability to manage complex mesh and star VPN environments are just of a few of the time-saving features that FortiManager appliances offer. Complemented by the FortiAnalyzer™ centralized logging and reporting appliance, the FortiManager appliance is a comprehensive and powerful centralized management solution.

Key Highlights

• APPLIANCE-BASED PLATFORM / WEB-BASED INTERFACE

Simplifies the deployment and maintenance associated with the central management solution by eliminating third-party operating systems and hardware requirements

• AUTOMATED DEVICE PROVISIONING / POLICY MANAGEMENT

Reduces time to deploy new FortiGate or FortiClient installations and maintain policies across all managed assets

• LOCAL CACHING OF FORTIGUARD SERVICES

Reduces time to distribute FortiGuard antivirus and IPS service updates and improves response times to FortiGuard Web filtering and antispam rating requests (Local FortiGuard Web filtering and antispam databases supported on FortiManager-3000/3000B)

• ROLE-BASED ADMINISTRATION

Enables distributed administration, an important requirement for service providers managing multiple customer deployments or large enterprises with multiple administrator types

• POLICY / DEVICE AUDITING

Ensure compliance by monitoring device configuration changes, complete with revision history and policy version comparison tools

• COMPREHENSIVE LOGGING / ANALYSIS / REPORTING VIA FORTIANALYZER PLATFORMS

— Web, email and IM application usage reports
— Protocol and application specific reports
— Real-time, on-demand & scheduled report generation