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April 25, 2025

Technical Tip: How to check FortiSwitch ports that have auto discovery enabled for FortiLink by default

  • April 25, 2025
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Description

This article describes how to identify the default ports in Fortiswitch that have auto discovery enabled. Ports with auto discovery are used by FortiGate to discover and manage FortiSwitches.

Scope FortiSwitch.
Solution

To check the default Auto-FortiLink ports, refer to the document below. Page 18 shows the default Auto-FortiLink ports for each FortiSwitch model: https://fortinetweb.s3.amazonaws.com/docs.fortinet.com/v2/attachments/a5cb2173-7e2e-11ec-a0d0-fa163e15d75b/FortiSwitch-7.0.4-FortiSwitch_Devices_Managed_by_FortiOS_7.0.pdf

 

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To check if auto-discovery is enabled in CLI, log in to FortiSwitch through the console and type the following commands.

 

config switch interface

show

    edit portx

        set auto-discovery-fortilink enabled   <----- This option should be enabled.

    next

end

 

Related document:
FortiLink