Uploading signature & geography-to-IP updates

How to set up your FortiWeb : Connecting to FortiGuard services : Uploading signature & geography-to-IP updates

You can manually update the geography-to-IP mappings and the attack, virus, and botnet signatures that your FortiWeb appliance uses to detect attacks. Updating these ensures that your FortiWeb appliance can detect recently discovered variations of these attacks, and that it knows about the current statuses of all IP addresses on the public Internet.

After restoring the firmware of the FortiWeb appliance, you should install the most currently available packages through FortiGuard. Restoring firmware installs the packages that were current at the time the firmware image file was made: they may no longer be up-to-date.


	Alternatively, you can schedule automatic updates, or manually trigger the appliance to immediately request an update. For details, see “Scheduling automatic signature updates” and “Manually initiating update requests”. This does not, however, update geography-to-IP mappings, which still must be uploaded manually.

To manually upload signatures

1. Download the file from the Fortinet Technical Support web site:

https://support.fortinet.com/

2. Log in to the web UI of the FortiWeb appliance as the admin administrator, or an administrator account whose access profile contains Read and Write permissions in the Maintenance category.

3. Go to System > Config > FortiGuard.

4. In the row next to the service whose signatures you want to upload, click the Update link.

A dialog appears that allows you to upload the file.

5. Click the Browse button (its name varies by browser) and select the signatures file, then click OK.

Your browser uploads the file. Time required varies by the size of the file and the speed of your network connection. Once the attack signature update is complete, FortiWeb will immediately begin to use them. No reboot is required.