FortiExplorer 4+

Name: FortiExplorer
Rating: 2.5 (57 reviews)
Author: Fortinet

Fortinet

Designed for iPad

- 2.5 • 57 Ratings

- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases

Description

FortiExplorer is a user-friendly configuration tool that helps you to quickly and easily set up, manage, and monitor your FortiGate appliances from your iOS Devices.

Supports FortiOS 5.6 or newer.

Nov 6, 2023

Version 4.0.0

Bug fixes and improvements

2.5 out of 5

57 Ratings

Barely useable

I’d really like to see the development of the app since Fortinet appears to have something against Safari. I have been unable to load certain pages of the UI in my Fortigate via Safari on Mac or iOS for ages. This is a huge problem for someone like me that prefers to utilize my iPad Pro on the go since all iOS web browsers funnel through WebKit. At least on my Mac I can use FireFox. I currently have no way of managing many aspects of my gate via iPad using the UI. Having a functioning FortiExplorer app would be a happy compromise, but it is also constantly throwing super helpful “something went wrong” errors. Very frustrating on multiple levels.

A marginal tool

Repeated USB errors and disconnects, including whenever I change focus to another app. That is not security, it is pure productivity loss.

For some reason was unable to change my password using this app—my long, complex password resulted in lost connections each time. It would however work if I typed “password” [yup]. I eventually got the password changed using SSH.

I was able to do basic configuration of the device, but I’m still trying to puzzle out the licensing which apparently prevents me from doing anything with the device and less I pay additional fees. But that is not the fault of this app.

Hopes high, but were dashed quickly

Well this was an exercise of futility.
Can login to our firewalls but can’t do anything with any Zones other than look at the icons. Every time I try to view an actual zone member details I get “failed to load data.”
It does allow basic views to see if things are up or not and a simple routing monitor. But if it can’t do 1/2 the stuff needed for the config, what’s really the point?

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