We perform work for a lot of government contractors, all who require FIPS-mode on their networking equipment. FIPS-mode disables the API on Fortigate devices; therefore, Liongard has no way of retrieving data from these devices.

Using a different communication protocol such as SNMP or SSH would allow for data collection when the API isn't available. Additional parsing would be required for SSH; however, SNMPv3 may offer more formatting that makes it easier to represent this data.