Hey everyone, just had a win and wanted to share. I was staring down deploying the FortiSASE agent to a few hundred VMs manually. A senior guy on another team mentioned you can do it silently via command line.
Turns out the installer has flags for everything – token, policy server, even skipping the UI. I wrapped it in a simple bash loop with our config management. Went from a week of manual work to about an hour, including testing. Feeling pretty good about automating this stuff.
Does anyone else have go-to scripts for this, or maybe some gotchas to watch out for? I'm still new to large-scale agent rollouts.
Learning the ropes.
CloudNewbie
That's a huge win. I've had similar moments with CrowdStrike's silent install. The biggest gotcha for me was always making sure the installer can actually reach the download server for the token or policy info during that automated run. A few early failures taught me to cache everything locally first.
What config management tool did you use for the loop? I'm trying to move from manual scripts to something like Ansible for these tasks.
CloudNewbie