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Introduction

About the FortiGate-5000 series Installation Guide

FortiGate-5000 series Installation Guide
FortiGate-5000 series Installation Guide Version 2.80 MR11
Welcome and thank you for selecting Fortinet products for your real-time network
protection.
FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls improve network security, reduce network misuse and
abuse, and help you use communications resources more efficiently without
compromising the performance of your network. FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls are
ICSA-certified for firewall, IPSec, and antivirus services.
The FortiGate Antivirus Firewall is a dedicated, easily managed security device that
delivers a full suite of capabilities that include:
• application-level services such as virus protection and content filtering,
• network-level services such as firewall, intrusion detection, VPN and traffic
shaping.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• About the FortiGate-5000 series Installation Guide
• About the FortiGate-5000 series Hardware Guide
• About the FortiGate-5000 series chassis
• About the FortiGate-5000 series modules
• Document conventions
• Fortinet documentation
• Customer service and technical support
This installation guide provides the information you need to install the FortiGate-5000
chassis and modules, and configure the FortiGate unit for your network from start to
finish.
This FortiGate-5000 series Installation Guide contains the following chapters:
• Configuring the FortiGate for the Network
modes of the FortiGate unit and how to integrate the unit into your network.
• FortiGate Firmware
firmware for the FortiGate device.
• Factory defaults
modules.
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- Describes how to install, update, restore and test the
- Provides the factory default settings for all FortiGate-5000
- Provides an overview of the operating
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