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Fortinet FortiManager offers streamlined centralized configuration, policy-driven provisioning, efficient update management, and comprehensive end-to-end network monitoring for your Fortinet environment.
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Overview
FortiManager serves as a centralized management solution for all your Fortinet devices, offering a unified console to simplify network oversight and administration. It delivers comprehensive network visibility, streamlined provisioning, and advanced automation tools to enhance operational efficiency. Seamlessly integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiManager leverages its innovative security architecture and automation-driven network operations to optimize and fortify your network security infrastructure.
FortiManager features a context-aware GenAI assistant for optimized network configuration. It simplifies management with AI-driven recommendations and regularly updated pre-configured automation packs, including scripts, and templates. FortiManager shifts the network management focus to strategic initiatives, ensuring efficient and effective operations.
To allow the FortiManager to register and license with FortiCare successfully please ensure connectivity to (https://directregistration.fortinet.com:443 ) by checking all related security groups, ACLs, IGW, route tables, and public IP addresses...etc that make affect connectivity.
This product supports the flexibility of scaling the underlying instance up or down to achieve the desired feature capacity to match your requirements. The following information is an example of how to size your cloud instance to support 10 and then 300 devices:
To have FortiManager support 10 devices and 10 VDOMs select an instance size with 4vCPU.
To increase the supported devices to 300 and 100 VDOMs, shut down the existing instance, select and apply an instance size with 8vCPU.
For more information see: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortimanager-public-cloud/7.6.0/aws-administration-guide/175664/order-types
Highlights
- Coordinate and manage security devices and systems across on-premises and cloud environments, simplifying network provisioning, security policy updates, and change management.
- Automate time-intensive processes and accelerate workflows to offload NOC-SOC, reduce administrative tasks and mitigate talent shortages.
- Enhance visibility across your entire digital attack surface and stay ahead of evolving cyber threats with a centralized platform featuring precise threat detection, automated correlation, and rapid response capabilities.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m6i.2xlarge Recommended | $1.06 |
m7a.8xlarge | $3.02 |
m6a.8xlarge | $3.02 |
m7a.4xlarge | $1.29 |
m6a.4xlarge | $1.29 |
m5.2xlarge | $1.06 |
m6i.8xlarge | $3.02 |
m5.xlarge | $0.54 |
m6i.4xlarge | $1.29 |
m6i.16xlarge | $15.10 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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This product supports the flexibility of scaling the underlying instance up or down to achieve the desired feature capacity to match your requirements. The following information is an example of how to size your cloud instance to support 10 and then 300 devices:
To have FortiManager support 10 devices and 10 VDOMs select an instance size with 4vCPU.
To increase the supported devices to 300 and 100 VDOMs, shut down the existing instance, select and apply an instance size with 8vCPU.
Choose an instance with 4vCPU to support 10 Devices and 10 VDOMs
Choose an instance with 8vCPU to support 300 Devices and 100 VDOMs
Choose an instance with 16vCPU to support 500 Devices and 300 VDOMs
Choose an instance with 32vCPU to support 1500 Devices and 1000 VDOMs
Choose an instance with 64vCPU to support 10000 Devices and 5000 VDOMs
For more information see: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortimanager-public-cloud/7.6.0/aws-administration-guide/175664/order-types
Admin Guide: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortimanager-public-cloud/7.6.0/aws-administration-guide/
Please ensure the connectivity to FortiCare (https://directregistration.fortinet.com:443 ) by checking all related setup on security groups, ACLs, IGW, route tables, public IP address...etc.
After deploying the instance, click on Manage in AWS Console to see the running instance and public DNS address to continue the configuration of the FortiManager. Connect to the secured Web UI via the public DNS address: https:// <public DNS address>. For any CLI configuration/settings, SSH is required to log into the CLI. Default login credentials are with a username of admin and the AWS Instance ID value as the password.
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Fortinet FortiCare support offerings provide global support for all Fortinet products and services. Please contact Customer Support with the following information: 1. The serial number of your FortiManager instance (shown in the GUI dashboard) 2. The email ID of your Fortinet account (Create one in https://support.fortinet.com/Credentials/Account/AccountCreation.aspx if you do not have.)
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Customer reviews
Computer & Network Security
Powerful Centralized Management for Fortinet Environments
Reviewed on Apr 15, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
1. What I like about Fortimanager is its ability to centrally manage multiple FortiGate devices from a single console. It makes administrator much easier by allowing policy changes, device monitoring and configuration updates across different locations without needing to log in to each firewall. This saves a lot of time.
2. The most helpful feature is policy management and configuration consistency. Using templates, ADOMS, and centralized policy packages helps standardize security rules across branches while reducing manual errors.
3. FortiManager allows administrator to track revisions, compare configurations and quickly restore previous versions when needed,
2. The most helpful feature is policy management and configuration consistency. Using templates, ADOMS, and centralized policy packages helps standardize security rules across branches while reducing manual errors.
3. FortiManager allows administrator to track revisions, compare configurations and quickly restore previous versions when needed,
What do you dislike about the product?
1. One downside of FortiManager is that the interface and navigation can take time to get used to especially for new administartors. Sinceit includes many advanced features for centralized management, policy packages, ADOMS and device templates.
2. Anothe challenge is policy synchronization and change management in complex environments. If configurtions are not planned properly, administartors may need extra time to review policy dufferences or resolve conflicts between device-level and centralized changes.
3. Reporting and troubleshooting can also require some experience, particular;y when managing large deployments with multiple devices.
2. Anothe challenge is policy synchronization and change management in complex environments. If configurtions are not planned properly, administartors may need extra time to review policy dufferences or resolve conflicts between device-level and centralized changes.
3. Reporting and troubleshooting can also require some experience, particular;y when managing large deployments with multiple devices.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. It also helps solve the problem of inconsistent security policies between branches. With centralized policy packages and templates, configurations remain standardized across all locations, which improves security posture and reduces the risk of human error.
2. Fortimanager keeps revision history, allows configurations comparisons and provides rollback options when needed. This helps during upgrades, troubleshooting and planned changes while reducing downtime risks.
3. Fortimanager helps solve the challenge of managing multiple FortiGate firewalls across different locations from one centralized platforms. Instead of configuring each device separately, administrators can push policies, updates.
2. Fortimanager keeps revision history, allows configurations comparisons and provides rollback options when needed. This helps during upgrades, troubleshooting and planned changes while reducing downtime risks.
3. Fortimanager helps solve the challenge of managing multiple FortiGate firewalls across different locations from one centralized platforms. Instead of configuring each device separately, administrators can push policies, updates.
Jitendra Kumar P.
Single Control Plane Simplifies Policy, VPN, IPS, and SD-WAN Management
Reviewed on Apr 06, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Quality management and policy creation, along with VPN, IPS, and SD-WAN configuration, are all handled through a single control plane.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are repeatedly facing sync issues with Fortigate gateways.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multiple users can work simultaneously to deploy the policy, and they can also manage it accordingly.
Information Technology and Services
FortiManager: Centralized Power with Some UI Friction
Reviewed on Jan 13, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
FortiManager stands out for its centralized management capabilities, making it easy to oversee multiple FortiGate firewalls. It enables administrators to deploy policies, perform updates, and manage revisions from a single dashboard, eliminating the need for manual configuration on each individual device. The inclusion of automation tools, scripting options, and zero-touch provisioning greatly reduces the time required to manage large networks, while also helping to maintain consistent security policies and minimize errors. With the integrated FortiAnalyzer, users benefit from comprehensive logging, detailed reporting, and FortiView, which offers real-time threat visibility and supports swift incident response.
What do you dislike about the product?
FortiManager's main disadvantages stem from its complicated and unintuitive user interface, which demands significant training and often hampers efficient policy management and navigation. Pushing policies can be a cumbersome process, as updates must be applied individually to each firewall, making the task time-consuming. Additionally, synchronization delays can lead to inconsistencies, especially during important changes. When used alongside FortiAnalyzer, performance problems may occur, and the handling of different firmware versions is unreliable, frequently requiring upgrades to address bugs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
FortiManager addresses the challenges of decentralized firewall management, inconsistent policies across various FortiGate devices, and manual configuration errors in distributed network environments. By centralizing configuration, policy enforcement, backups, and firmware updates within a single console, and utilizing ADOMs for multi-tenancy, it streamlines network administration and enhances overall efficiency.
Computer & Network Security
Easy Centralized Management for FortiGate Firewalls
Reviewed on Oct 01, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
FortiManager simplifies the work of a user who needs to handle more than one FortiGate firewall. In fact, I use the centralised dashboard, policy push, and automation tools a lot — they are really time savers when compared to the manual configuration of each device. The integration with Fortinet’s Security Fabric is also part of the tour de force, as it leads to better visibility over the net.
What do you dislike about the product?
FortiManager solves the challenge of managing multiple firewalls across sites. Instead of logging into each device separately, I can deploy policies, updates, and changes centrally. This reduces configuration errors, saves hours of work, and keeps policies consistent across the network. It’s especially helpful in large or distributed environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
FortiManager is the answer to the problem of handling several FortiGate firewalls located in various places. The process of individually setting up devices was replaced by centrally managing policies and updates. Not only does this method save time and minimize errors, but it also ensures that security policies remain uniform - something that has a direct impact on effectiveness and compliance.
Yamkela M.
FortiManager for admins
Reviewed on Aug 04, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It gives great security features and easy usage when you're familiar with the environment, which provide some peace of mind.
The controls and categories also help a lot.
The controls and categories also help a lot.
What do you dislike about the product?
Struggled a bit with the setup, implementation took a bit of a while although the intergration was swift. RBAC could also improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security and connections, firewall controls are great.