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knam273
knam273
Visitor III
October 14, 2024
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create multiple fortigate lab in eve-ng

  • October 14, 2024
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Hi, I am new in both eve-ng and fortigate. sorry for my naive question.

 

I create my first lab with fortigate firewall using trial license, everything work fine. 

then in my second fortigate lab, serial of fortigate node change and trial license is invalid and I cannot register it gain using my account. 

 

Is there a way to sustain the fortigate image with its serial number in different eve-ng lab ?  

Best answer by knam273

I found the solution, I need to "decommision this unit" on FortiClound before registering new VM in new eve-ng lab 

 

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johnathan
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johnathan
Staff
October 14, 2024

Unfortunately, you can only have one FortiGate Evaluation VM per FortiCloud account, see: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate-private-cloud/7.6.0/xen-administration-guide/504166/fortigate-vm-evaluation-license
You can try to use multiple FortiCloud accounts potentially.

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knam273
knam273Author
Visitor III
October 14, 2024

many thank for your answer.

 

Suppose I have several lab topology, each lab need one Fortigate VM and I only run 1 lab at a time. is this possible for me to reuse the Fortigate Evaluation VM (connect with my account) in each lab ? 

 

As a learner, I would like to keep all these topology for making reference, also destroying and creating new topology in every lesson just to keep Fortigate Evaluation VM is time consuming.

 

 

 

 

 

johnathan
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johnathan
Staff
October 14, 2024

Yup. You can move the license around to whichever FortiGate you want to use at that moment. It will change the S/N like you saw previously, but should work fine.

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