Showing posts with label ISP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISP. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Enabling advanced features in Fortigate firmware 5.0

You can enable some hidden/advanced features in Fortigate OS 5.0 via System -> Config -> Features and turn on Advanced Routing,

In my case, I was looking for "dead gateway detection" so I could switch to my secondary ISP when my primary ISP failed, but the option wasn't there in Router -> Static -> Settings.  Once Advanced Routing was turned on, I had the option for dead gateway detection.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

information to gather when taking over support for another client

This is an ongoing list of things that one should get when taking over IT support of a client (if you can get it):

admin credentials for a domain admin account
login credentials for the router/firewall
Tech Soup login info (if applicable)
Volume licensing information from Microsoft, Symantec, or other vendors as applicable
Account number for ISP
Account number for phone carrier (if supporting phones)
Contact info for phone vendor (if supporting phones)
login credentials for registrar
login credentials for any and all DNS nameservers