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Maintenance

System maintenance tasks include:

• Backing up the configuration
• Upgrading the firmware
• Licensing

Backing up the configuration

You can back up the configuration of the FortiAuthenticator unit to your local computer. See Backing up and restoring the configuration for more information.

Automatic system configuration backup can also be configured. See Config Auto-backup for information.

Upgrading the firmware

Periodically, Fortinet issues firmware upgrades that fix known issues, add new features and functionality, and generally improve your FortiAuthenticator experience. See Firmware Upgrade for more information.

Before proceeding to upgrade your system, Fortinet recommends you back up your configuration. Please follow the procedure detailed in Backing up and restoring the configuration.

To upgrade the firmware, you must first register your FortiAuthenticator with Fortinet. See Registering your Fortinet product for more information.

To upgrade FortiAuthenticator firmware:

1. Download the latest firmware to your local computer from the Fortinet Support website.
2. Go to System > Administration > Firmware Upgrade.
3. Select Choose File and locate the firmware image on your local computer.
4. Select OK.

When you select OK, the firmware image will upload from your local computer to the FortiAuthenticator device, which will then reboot. You will experience a short period of time during this reboot when the FortiAuthenticator device is offline and unavailable for authentication.

Licensing

FortiAuthenticator-VM works in evaluation mode until it is licensed. The license is valid only if one of the FortiAuthenticator interfaces is set to the IP address specified in the license. See Licensing for more information.

To license FortiAuthenticator:

1. Go to System > Administration > Licensing.
2. Select Choose File and locate on your local computer the license file you received from Fortinet.
3. Select OK.