Fortinet FortiGate 31G FortiConverter Service, 1-Year (FC-10-GT31G-189-02-12)

Swapping a Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, or SonicWall firewall for a FortiGate 31G is mostly about the rules, not the box. Rebuilding hundreds of policies, objects, and NAT entries by hand is slow and easy to get wrong. The FortiGate 31G FortiConverter Service (FC-10-GT31G-189-02-12) covers a one-time, assisted migration of that existing configuration onto the 31G, with Fortinet’s tooling and migration team doing the conversion. It is sold as a subscription entitlement, with no hardware and electronic delivery worldwide.

What this service covers

FortiConverter handles the translation work of moving a third-party ruleset to FortiOS:

• Configuration conversion: firewall policies, address and service objects, NAT rules, and routing from a supported vendor are mapped to their FortiOS equivalents.
• Cleanup along the way: the process is an opportunity to drop dead rules and tidy objects rather than carry old clutter onto the new device.
• Fewer manual errors: automated translation reduces the transcription mistakes that cause outages and security gaps during a hand-built cutover.
• Faster, more predictable cutover: the converted config gives you a tested starting point so the switch to the 31G is a shorter, lower-risk change.

Who needs it

This fits anyone standing up a FortiGate 31G as a replacement for an existing firewall with a non-trivial ruleset: a business changing vendors, an MSP onboarding a client onto Fortinet, or an IT team that simply does not have days to retype policy by hand. If the 31G is a brand-new deployment with only a handful of rules, a manual setup is usually quicker than a migration service.

Activation and delivery

The entitlement is issued electronically and registered against the FortiGate 31G. FortiConverter is a one-time migration service rather than ongoing protection, so it is used to complete the conversion project and is not something the device relies on day to day afterward. Nothing ships, and the 31G should be on hand as the migration target.

A project service, not security coverage

FortiConverter gets your rules onto the 31G; it does not defend the traffic those rules carry. Once the device is live, the protection comes from a FortiGuard subscription such as UTP or Enterprise, and ongoing support comes from FortiCare. Most migrations pair this one-time service with one of those so the 31G is both correctly configured and actively protected from day one.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner and we deliver the FortiConverter entitlement electronically to customers in any country. Tell us which firewall you are migrating from and roughly how large the ruleset is, and we will confirm it is a supported source and that this service is the right fit before you order.