Fortinet FortiGate Rugged 30D FortiConverter Service, 1-Year (FC-10-R030D-189-02-12)

Cutting over the firewall that guards a production line or a remote OT site is the kind of change nobody wants to do twice. Rebuild the rule base by hand and a single missed policy can stall a process or open a path you meant to close. The FortiGate Rugged 30D FortiConverter Service (FC-10-R030D-189-02-12) moves that work to Fortinet’s migration team, which translates your existing firewall configuration into FortiOS for the rugged 30D and validates it before you go live. It is a one-time service sold as a subscription license, with no hardware and electronic delivery to any country.

What this service covers

FortiConverter relies on a proven, repeatable conversion engine rather than a manual transcription, so the outcome is predictable and documented:

• Automated configuration conversion: existing policies, address objects, and routing are mapped into FortiOS, removing most of the human error that creeps into a hand rebuild.
• Expert validation: Fortinet engineers review the converted ruleset and confirm it behaves as intended before the 30D takes traffic.
• Broad source support: migrations are supported from Check Point, Cisco, Cisco Meraki, Forcepoint, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, pfSense, SonicWall, Sophos, WatchGuard, and other common firewalls, including older FortiGate units.
• Documented audit trail: each conversion comes with a record of what was migrated, which helps with change control and the post-cutover review that OT sites usually require.

Who needs it

This service fits a team standing up a FortiGate Rugged 30D in place of a third-party firewall at an industrial or outdoor location, or one carrying a mature configuration forward from an aging appliance. It is most worthwhile when nobody on staff has the hours, or the appetite, to recreate a long-lived policy set by hand and gamble on a missed rule during a maintenance window.

Activation and delivery

The entitlement is issued electronically and registered against the migration project. FortiConverter is a one-time configuration conversion, so the engagement is scoped to moving your source configuration onto the 30D rather than to coverage that runs through the year. Nothing ships. You supply the existing firewall configuration, and the converted FortiOS policy comes back for review and deployment.

What it does, and what it does not

FortiConverter moves your configuration; it does not deliver the threat protection that keeps the 30D defended once it is online. Intrusion prevention, antivirus, and web filtering come from the UTP or Enterprise subscription, and most teams pair one of those with the migration so the rugged firewall is both correctly configured and actively protected from the first packet. Because the 30D is a legacy D-series model, a migration is also a sensible moment to ask whether a current rugged FortiGate is the better landing spot for the converted config.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner, and we provision FortiConverter electronically for customers anywhere. If you are unsure whether your source firewall is supported, or what the conversion will and will not carry across, send us the platform you are migrating from and we will confirm scope before you commit.