Fortinet (FortiGate Secure Wireless Controller)

FortiGate Secure Wireless Controller setup

You need to manually create the WLAN/s you want to use to run Cusna on.

  1. Go to WiFi and Switch Controller (or simply WiFi Controller, depending on your licenses) > SSIDs and edit an existing SSID you want to use or create a new one.

  2. In Security Mode, select WPA2 Personal.

  3. In Pre-shared Key, select Multiple as the PSK mode

  4. Next, you need to select at least one MPSK Profile (otherwise the SSID will switch back automatically to Single PSK mode once you save the configuration). You can select any existing MPSK Profile if you have one, Cusna will create a new one automatically once integrated with your Fortigate and assign it to this SSID. If you don't have any existing MPSK Profile, create a new one:

    1. Enter any value in the Name file, such as "Default"

    2. Enter any value in the Name file, such as "Default"

    3. Enter any value for Name and a 10 character string for Pre-shared key.

    4. Save all the configurations until you go back to the list of SSIDs.

After the initial setup, the MPSK Profile assigned to the SSID will be managed automatically by Cusna. Do Not change the MPSK Profile manually on this SSID.

You Fortigate controller need to have a valid SSL certificate and be reachable over the internet at a specific hostname or static IP address.

If you encounter any certificate related error during setup, please contact our support.

Cusna setup

Log in your Fortinet system with admin access. Click System > Administrator. Click the button + Create New and select REST API Admin.

In the New Rest API Admin page, enter a Username.

Then select or create a new Administrator Profile with the Read/Write permissions for WiFi & Switch Access Control category.

Disable PKI Group.

Enable CORS Allow Origin and enter https://cusna.io

Click OK and copy the API Key shown in the right panel. The API Key will be shown only once, so make sure to copy it on a note.

Open your Cusna dashboard and go to Setting, expand the WiFi setup card, select Fortinet and in the setup panel enter your:

  • hostname (eg. 207.45.23.34 or fortigate.example.com)

  • port (e.g. 45)

  • API Key

Click Setup.

If any of the provided integration attributes are wrong, you'll get an error.

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