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December 8, 2025

Technical Tip: Autoscale sync behaviour change from secondary members in FortiGate

  • December 8, 2025
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Description This article describes the FortiGate autoscale sync behaviour change from secondary members in v6.4.x or higher. 
Scope FortiGate-VM.
Solution

In v6.2.x, the autoscale feature did not allow changes on the secondary device (before called slave) to affect the primary device (called master).

 

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In v6.4.x and v7.x+, all changes done on the secondary device DO affect the primary device. In the example below, the primary DNS was set to 1.1.1.1 on the secondary device (slave).

 

FGT02_secondary-6.4.jpg

 

Checking the primary device (master), the DNS settings were updated. 

 

FGT01_primary-6.4.jpg

 

Note:

In v7.x+, the word 'master' was replaced by 'primary'.

 

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