Fortinet: Upgrading and Downgrading FortiGate Firmware

[@WADZUP]

Are you a good witch or bad? Pure gold. Thanks

[@WADZUP]

Legend

[@kool1311]

Thank you brother.

[@keithnash3020]

Hey, thanks for the video. Regarding the downgrade scenario 1, I assume that in a HA cluster this procedure pushes the rollback to the secondary and after that the primary does the same in order to guarantee availability. Similar to an upgrade, is this correct? Thanks! :)

[@tothepointfortinet3823]

Good question. When following downgrade scenario1 with HA it will NOT push the rollback as far as I know. Each one will need the partition flip done manually. Technically the fortigate doesn't think of this procedure as a downgrade(even though it's simpler to word it as a downgrade), fortigate thinks of it as switching partitions so there is no configuration migration that it will consider like it would during an upgrade

[@keithnash3020]

@@tothepointfortinet3823 Thanks for the reply :) Yeah your thought process makes total sense. It would be awesome to see an easier and cleaner way to downgrade HA clusters, downgrades are always a pain in the ass and a boomer for the client to withstand unavailability in the services. Anyways great video, I might use the first method if I come across any standalone unit :P Much better than downgrading and restoring configs!

[@aarushsingh2006]

Can you please make video on life of a packet of fortigate firewall. What is fast path architecture and how fortigate process traffic in fastpath architecture ?

[@rosatechnocrat]

Sure, I will share you the life of a packet in Fortigate.

[@aeronjorge98]

Hi is it possible to revert downgrade the HA Cluster on the method2?

[@aap745]

Hi the sessions, cpu and ram utilisation not getting in ha gui mode tab in fgt 7.0 version please help me on it.

[@satriorochmad9411]

Hi, how about when after upgrade I just found 1 Image detected on flash list ?

[@tothepointfortinet3823]

Interesting haven't seen that, can you send screenshot? Also what happens if you upgrade again (even if you upgrade to same version, just want to see if a subsequent upgrade does anything else)

[@zoolreact2622]

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