Removing Fortigate Dashboard Reminder — FortiOS v 6.4.X

First Tutorial — Learning Medium

Welcome to my blog, where I plan to chronicle my adventures working with Fortinet related services and products.

For my first post, I will be explaining how to get rid of the annoying pop up that Fortinet introduced in their FortiOS Firmware 6.4. This pop up will display every time you log in to your Fortigate device if any of the conditions listed are triggered. It looks something like this:

I would actually say that most users would have all of these setup already, but the one that was bothering me was the “Upgrade Firmware” prompt.

In order to remove this warning at login, you must ssh into the Fortigate or use the built in command line interface and enter the following lines of code:

config system global

set gui-firmware-upgrade-setup-warning disable

end

No more annoying popups when you log into your device!

Thanks for reading! I made this first post simple as a test to see how blogging on this platform will work. I expect to update it consistently with more in-depth content in the future.

official documentation: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.4.0/administration-guide/475378/firmware-upgrade-notifications