Fortinet FortiGate 1801F-DC FortiCloud Management & Analysis, 5-Year (FC-10-D18F1-131-02-60)

The FortiGate 1801F-DC 5-Year FortiGate Cloud license (FC-10-D18F1-131-02-60) puts this DC-powered 2RU firewall’s management, log analysis, and event history in a browser tab instead of a rack of on-premise infrastructure. Five years of coverage, one year of rolling log retention included at all times, no hardware to buy or maintain. Subscription only, delivered electronically to any country.

What FortiGate Cloud covers on the 1801F-DC

FortiGate Cloud is Fortinet’s hosted management and analytics service for FortiGate appliances. On this specific license, the FortiGate 1801F-DC gets:

• Centralized device management: configuration, firmware, and policy visibility for the unit from the FortiCloud portal, without standing up a local FortiManager instance.
• Traffic and threat analysis: dashboards summarizing sessions, applications, top talkers, and security events processed by the firewall, useful for day-to-day triage without digging through raw logs.
• One year of cloud log retention: rolling 12-month storage of the logs generated by the appliance, searchable from the portal for troubleshooting, audits, or incident review.
• FortiCloud single sign-on: the same account ties into asset management, entitlement tracking, and support case history for the serial number registered against this license.

The 1801F-DC itself is the DC-power variant of the 1800F-series chassis: NP7 and CP9 accelerated, dual DC power supplies (-48V to -60V), 2x 960GB onboard NVMe SSD, and rated for 22 Gbps IPS / 17 Gbps NGFW / 15 Gbps Threat Protection throughput at this platform tier — the kind of deployment where central log visibility matters because the box is carrying real enterprise traffic.

Who buys the 5-year term

A five-year FortiCloud term suits a 1801F-DC deployment where the hardware refresh cycle is already planned around that horizon: colocation and data center builds, telco/edge sites with long depreciation schedules, or any environment where matching license terms to the hardware lifecycle avoids a renewal event mid-cycle. Locking in five years also protects against future FortiCloud price changes across the coverage window.

Activation and delivery

FortiCloud licenses are issued electronically and registered against the FortiGate 1801F-DC’s serial number. Once applied, the appliance connects to the FortiCloud service and begins reporting logs and telemetry; no shipment, no physical media, and no downtime beyond the initial registration. Delivery is worldwide, since the license itself is a cloud entitlement rather than a physical product.

FortiGate Cloud vs. the broader NOC/SOC lineup

FortiGate Cloud is the self-managed tier: you get the dashboards and log retention, and your own team still does the watching. If the requirement is someone else doing device setup, policy changes, or 24×7 monitoring, Fortinet’s Managed FortiGate Service and FortiGuard SOCaaS sit a level above this and are sold as separate licenses for the same model. For teams that already run their own NOC but want deeper historical log analysis instead of the one-year window here, FortiAnalyzer Cloud is the adjacent option worth comparing.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner, and licenses like this one ship instantly to the inbox regardless of where the order originates. Not sure whether the 5-year term or a shorter one fits the deployment better, or whether FortiGate Cloud is the right tier versus FortiAnalyzer Cloud or SOCaaS? Reach out before ordering and we’ll help match the license to the environment.