Technical Tip: How to enable console access for FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer instance in Azure Cloud

Console access is particularly useful to troubleshoot the instance's status, if the instance fall into unknown state when its not responding to SSH/PING/GUI access.  

The following are the steps to enable the console access in Azure portal for a particular instance.

In this example, it is based on the FortiManager's instance. 

1) After login the portal, go to Virtual Machines  - > Search for instance.

2) In the instance left panel menu, Support + troubleshooting  -> Boot diagnostics  -> Settings -> Select Enable with managed storage account (recommended)  -> Save.

If it is not being enabled, the message of 'Boot diagnostics is not configured for this virtual machine' will be visible.

3) In the same instance left panel menu, Support + troubleshooting  -> Serial console.