Fortinet FortiGate Rugged 35D FortiConverter Service, 1-Year (FC-10-R035D-189-02-12)

Replacing a firewall at a sealed, hard-to-reach site raises the stakes on getting the configuration right the first time. Once the FortiGate Rugged 35D is mounted in its enclosure, you do not want to be reopening it to fix a policy that did not carry over. The FortiGate Rugged 35D FortiConverter Service (FC-10-R035D-189-02-12) takes the conversion off your plate: Fortinet’s migration team translates your existing firewall configuration into FortiOS for the rugged 35D and validates it before deployment. 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 uses a proven, repeatable conversion engine rather than hand transcription, so the result is consistent and documented:

• Automated configuration conversion: existing policies, objects, and routing are mapped into FortiOS, removing most of the error that creeps into a manual rebuild before a unit ships to the field.
• Expert validation: Fortinet engineers review the converted ruleset and confirm it behaves as intended before the 35D is sealed and deployed.
• 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: every conversion ships with a record of what was migrated, which supports the change control most industrial and remote sites require.

Who needs it

This service fits a team putting a FortiGate Rugged 35D in place of a third-party firewall at an outdoor or industrial location, or carrying a mature ruleset forward from an aging appliance. It earns its cost most clearly when the site is awkward to revisit and nobody on staff has the hours to rebuild a long-lived policy set by hand without risking a missed rule.

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 35D rather than to coverage that runs across the year. Nothing ships. You provide the existing firewall configuration, and the converted FortiOS policy is returned for review and deployment.

What it does, and what it does not

FortiConverter moves your configuration; it does not provide the threat protection that defends the 35D once it is live. Intrusion prevention, antivirus, and web filtering come from the UTP or Enterprise subscription, and most teams pair one with the migration so the rugged firewall is both correctly configured and actively protected from the start. The 35D is a legacy D-series model, so a migration is a fitting moment to ask whether a current rugged FortiGate should be the destination 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, tell us what you are migrating from and we will confirm scope before you order.