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Connect your Fortinet FortiManager so Myrmex can read its configuration, review the FortiGate devices and policy packages it manages, audit hardening, and — with approval — push changes. Myrmex reaches the appliance over SSH through a Collector on your network, on demand — nothing is stored on the Myrmex side.

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What Myrmex Can Do

Read & troubleshoot

Inspect system status, managed devices, ADOMs, and policy packages — read-only diagnostics, pulled live.

Hardening audit

Run a Security Posture audit across FortiManager and the FortiGates it manages.

Policy hygiene

Review policy packages for shadowed, unused, or overly-permissive rules across managed devices.

Backup & diff

Back up the configuration on demand and compare revisions over time; with approval, push policy changes to managed devices.

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Before You Start

  • A Collector deployed on a network that can reach the FortiManager’s management IP over SSH. See Deploying the agent.
  • SSH enabled on the FortiManager management interface.
  • An administrator account Myrmex can use to log in (a read-only profile is enough for analysis; a read-write profile is required to push changes).

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Step 1 — Create the Access Account on FortiManager

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Enable SSH on the management interface

In System Settings → Network, edit the management interface and enable SSH under Administrative Access.
2

Create an admin profile (optional, recommended)

In System Settings → Admin → Profiles, create a profile scoped to what Myrmex should do — read-only for analysis, or read-write to allow changes.
3

Create the administrator

In System Settings → Admin → Administrators, add an administrator with a strong password and assign the profile above. Note the username and password — you’ll enter them in Myrmex.
Prefer least privilege: start with a read-only account, and only grant read-write once you want the agents to apply changes for you.

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Step 2 — Add the Integration in Myrmex

From the Directory, choose Add Integration → FortiManager, then fill in:

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Connect

Click Connect to validate the SSH connection and finish. The FortiManager then appears under Environment → Integrations, and you can start asking the AI about it in the Workspace.
This integration is operated by the Integration Specialist agent, which runs the FortiManager CLI on your behalf. Browse more connectors in the Integrations directory.