Fortinet 100A User Manual

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System config

FortiGate-100A Administration Guide

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Figure 29: System config options

To set the system idle timeout

1

Go to System > Config > Options.

2

For Idle Timeout, type a number in minutes.

3

Select Apply.

To set the Auth timeout

1

Go to System > Config > Options.

2

For Auth Timeout, type a number in minutes.

3

Select Apply.

To select a language for the web-based manager

1

Go to System > Config > Options.

2

From the Languages list, select a language for the web-based manager to use.

3

Select Apply.

Idle Timeout

Set the idle time out to control the amount of inactive time before the

administrator must log in again. The maximum admintimeout is 480

minutes (8 hours). To improve security keep the idle timeout at the default

value of 5 minutes.

Auth Timeout

Set the firewall user authentication timeout to control how long an

authenticated connection can be idle before the user must authenticate

again. The maximum authtimeout is 480 minutes (8 hours). The

default Auth Timeout is 15 minutes.
For more information, see

“Setting authentication timeout” on page 234

.

Language

Select a language for the web-based manager to use. Choose from

English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or French.

Detection Interval

Set the dead gateway detection failover interval. Enter a number in

seconds to specify how often the FortiGate unit pings the target.

Fail-over Detection Set the ping server dead gateway detection failover number. Enter the

number of times that ping fails before the FortiGate unit assumes that the

gateway is no longer functioning.

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