Fortinet FortiSIEM FSM-500G User manual

500G Collector Configuration Guide
FortiSIEM 7.0.1

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TABLEOFCONTENTS
Appliance Setup 4
Fresh Installation 4
Step 1: Rack mount the FSM-500G Appliance 4
Step 2: Power On the FSM-500G Appliance 4
Step 3: Verify System Information 4
Step 4: Configure FortiSIEM via GUI 5
Step 5: Register Collectors 11
Step 6: Using FortiSIEM 14
Factory Reset 15
Step 1: Uninstall FortiSIEM application 15
Step 2: Reinstall FortiSIEM application 15
Upgrading FortiSIEM Collector 15
Appliance Re-image 15
Step 1: Create Bootable Linux Image 16
Step 2: Staging the FortiSIEM Collector Image 16
Step 3: Prepare 500G by removing FSM 17
Step 4: Configure 500G BIOS to Boot into USB Drive 17
Step 5: Re-image the 500G 17
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Appliance Setup
This document describes how to setup the FSM-500G appliance.
lFresh Installation
lFactory Reset
lUpgrading FortiSIEM Collector
lAppliance Re-image
Fresh Installation
lStep 1: Rack mount the FSM-500G Appliance
lStep 2: Power On the FSM-500G Appliance
lStep 3: Verify System Information
lStep 4: Configure FortiSIEM via GUI
lStep 5: Register Collectors
lStep 6: Using FortiSIEM
Step 1: Rack mount the FSM-500G Appliance
1. Follow FortiSIEM 500G QuickStart Guide to mount FSM-500G into rack.
2. Connect FSM-500G to the network by connecting an Ethernet cable to Port1.
Before proceeding to the next step, connecting Ethernet cable to Port1 is required for
Network configuration.
Step 2: Power On the FSM-500G Appliance
1. Make sure the FSM-500G device is connected to a Power outlet and an Ethernet cable is connected to
Port1.
2. Power On the FSM-500G device.
Step 3: Verify System Information
1. Connect to the FSM-500G appliance using VGA port or Console port.
2. Login as user root with password ProspectHills.
3. You will be asked to change your password. Once you change the password, you will be logged out. Login
again with your new password.
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Note this password—you will need it in a later step.
4. Run get to check the available FortiSIEM commands.
5. Use the below commands to check the hardware information. After running each command, ensure that
there are no errors in the displayed output.
Command Description
get system status Displays system name, version and serial
number.
diagnose hardware info Displays system hardware information like
CPUs, Memory and RAID information.
diagnose interface detail
port0
Displays interface status.
Step 4: Configure FortiSIEM via GUI
1. Log in as user root with the password you set in Step 3 above.
2. At the command prompt, go to /usr/local/bin, and enter configFSM.sh. For example:
# configFSM.sh
A simple GUIwill open.
3. In the GUI, select 1 Set Timezone, and then press Next.
4. Select your Region, then press Next.
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5. Select your Country, and press Next.
6. Select the Country and City for your timezone, and press Next.
7. Select 1 Collector. Press Next.
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8. If you want to enable FIPS, then choose 2 install_with_fips. Otherwise, choose 1 install_without_fips.
You have the option of enabling FIPS (option 3) or disabling FIPS (option 4) later.
Note: After Installation, a 5th option to change your network configuration (5 change_network_config) is
available. This allows you to change your network configuration and/or host name.
9. Determine whether your network supports IPv4-only, IPv6-only, or both IPv4 and IPv6 (Dual Stack).
Choose 1for IPv4-only, choose 2for IPv6-only, or choose 3for both IPv4 and IPv6.
10. If you choose 1(IPv4) or choose 3(Both IPv4 and IPv6), and press Next, then you will move to step 11. If
you choose 2(IPv6), and press Next, then skip to step 12.
11. When prompted, enter the information for these network components to configure the Static IP
address:IPAddress,Netmask,Gateway,DNSServer(s). Configure the network by entering the
following fields. Press Next.
Note:Configuring a DNSServer to resolve external addresses as updates to remote repositories will be
required in the future.
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Note the IP Address—you will need it in a later step.
Option Description
IPv4
Address
The Collector's IPv4 address
NetMask The Collector's subnet
Gateway Network gateway address
DNS1, DNS2 Addresses of the DNS servers
12. If you chose 1in step 9, then you will need to skip to step 13. If you chose 2or 3in step 9, then you will
configure the IPv6 network by entering the following fields, then press Next.
Option Description
IPv6
Address
The Collector's IPv6 address
prefix
(Netmask)
The Collector's IPv6 prefix
Gateway
ipv6
IPv6 Network gateway address
DNS1 IPv6,
DNS2 IPv6
Addresses of the IPv6 DNS server 1 and
DNS server2
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Note: If you chose option 3in step 9 for both IPv4 and IPv6, then even if you configure 2 DNS servers for
IPv4 and IPv6, the system will only use the first DNS server from IPv4 and the first DNS server from the
IPv6 configuration.
Note: In many dual stack networks, IPv4 DNS server(s) can resolve names to both IPv4 and IPv6. In such
environments, if you do not have an IPv6 DNS server, then you can use public IPv6 DNS servers or use
IPv4-mapped IPv6 address.
13. Configure Hostname for Collector. Press Next.
Note: FQDN is no longer needed.
14. Test network connectivity by entering a host name that can be resolved by your DNS Server (entered in the
previous step) and responds to ping. The host can either be an internal host or a public domain host like
google.com. For migration to complete, the system still needs https connectivity to FortiSIEM OS update
servers: os-pkgs-cdn.fortisiem.fortinet.com and os-pkgs-c8.fortisiem.fortinet.com.
Press Next.
Note: By default, “google.com” is shown for the connectivity test, but if configuring IPv6, you must enter an
accessible internally approved IPv6 DNS server, for example: “ipv6-dns.fortinet.com"
Note:When configuring both IPv4 and IPv6, only testing connectivity for the IPv6 DNSis required because
the IPV6 takes higher precedence. So update the host field with an approved IPv6 DNSserver.
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15. The final configuration confirmation is displayed. Verify that the parameters are correct. If they are not, then
press Back to return to previous dialog boxes to correct any errors. If everything is OK, then press Run.
The options are described in the following table.
Option Description
-r The FortiSIEM component being configured
-z The time zone being configured
-i IPv4-formatted address
-m Address of the subnet mask
-g Address of the gateway server used
--host Host name
-f FQDN address: fully-qualified domain name
-t The IP type. The values can be either 4(for
ipv4) or 6(for v6) or 64 (for both ipv4 and
ipv6).
--dns1, --dns2 Addresses of the DNS servers
--i6 IPv6-formatted address
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