Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-400A Administration Manual page 83

System config
FortiGate-400A Administration Guide
Figure 29: System config options
Idle Timeout
Auth Timeout
Language
LCD Panel
Detection Interval
Fail-over Detection Set the ping server dead gateway detection failover number. Enter the
To set the system idle timeout
1 Go to System > Config > Options.
2 For Idle Timeout, type a number in minutes.
3 Select Apply.
To set the Auth timeout
1 Go to System > Config > Options.
2 For Auth Timeout, type a number in minutes.
3 Select Apply.
Set the idle time out to control the amount of inactive time before the
administrator must log in again. The maximum admintimeout is 480
minutes (8 hours). To improve security keep the idle timeout at the default
value of 5 minutes.
Set the firewall user authentication timeout to control how long an
authenticated connection can be idle before the user must authenticate
again. The maximum authtimeout is 480 minutes (8 hours). The
default Auth Timeout is 15 minutes.
For more information, see
Select a language for the web-based manager to use. Choose from
English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or French.
Select the PIN Protection check box and type a 6-digit PIN.
Administrators must enter the PIN to use the control buttons and LCD.
See "To set PIN protection for the LCD panel" on page
Set the dead gateway detection failover interval. Enter a number in
seconds to specify how often the FortiGate unit pings the target.
number of times that ping fails before the FortiGate unit assumes that the
gateway is no longer functioning.
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"Setting authentication timeout" on page
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